Acts 1:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Cross References

Psalm 22:27

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

Psalm 98:3

He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the end of the earth! Let the sea roar and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 52:10

The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 66:19

and I will set a sign among them. From them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, to Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands far away that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Zechariah 4:6

He said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 24:14

And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Matthew 28:19

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.

Luke 1:35

The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.

Luke 10:19

Indeed, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Luke 24:29

But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.

John 15:27

You also are to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.”

Acts 1:5

for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Acts 13:31

and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now his witnesses to the people.

Acts 2:32

“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.

Acts 22:15

for you will be his witness to all the world of what you have seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

Acts 4:33

With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Acts 6:8

Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.

Acts 8:1

And Saul approved of their killing him. That day a severe persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.

Romans 10:18

But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have: “Their voice has gone out to all the earth and their words to the ends of the world.”

Romans 15:19

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.