Acts 2:39

New English Translation

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Cross References

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

Isaiah 54:13

All your children will be followers of the Lord, and your children will enjoy great prosperity.

Isaiah 57:19

I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby,” says the Lord, “and I will heal them.

Isaiah 59:19

In the west, people respect the Lord’s reputation; in the east they recognize his splendor. For he comes like a rushing stream driven on by wind sent from the Lord.

Isaiah 59:20

“A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.

Ezekiel 37:25

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

Joel 2:28

(3:1) After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have revelatory dreams; your young men will see prophetic visions.

Joel 2:32

It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.

Acts 10:45

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

Acts 14:27

When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

Acts 15:14

Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name.

Acts 15:3

So they were sent on their way by the church, and as they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were relating at length the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.

Acts 15:8

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Romans 8:30

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 9:24

even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 9:4

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Ephesians 1:18

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened – so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:12

that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 4:4

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling,

Deuteronomy 29:15

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

2 Timothy 1:9

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,

Hebrews 9:15

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

1 Peter 5:10

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to be sure of your calling and election. For by doing this you will never stumble into sin.

2 Peter 1:3

I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

Revelation 17:14

They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.”

Revelation 19:9

Then the angel said to me, “Write the following: Blessed are those who are invited to the banquet at the wedding celebration of the Lamb!” He also said to me, “These are the true words of God.”