Acts 2:17

The Passion Translation

‘This is what I will do in the last days —I will pour out my Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God.

Cross References

Genesis 49:1

Jacob called all his sons together and gathered them around his bedside. He said to them, “Let me prophesy to you about your future destinies:

Genesis 6:12

for he saw how debased the world had become, for everyone was corrupt to the core.

Psalm 72:6

Your favor will fall like rain upon our surrendered lives, like showers reviving the earth.

Proverbs 1:23

Come back to your senses and be restored to reality. Don’t even think about refusing my rebuke! Don’t you know that I’m ready to pour out my spirit of wisdom upon you and bring to you the revelation of my words that will make your heart wise?

Isaiah 2:2

In the last days, the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be raised up as the head of the mountains, towering over all the hills. A sparkling stream of every nation will flow into it.

Isaiah 40:5

Then Yahweh’s radiant glory will be unveiled, and all humanity will experience it together. Believe it, for Yahweh has spoken his decree!”

Isaiah 44:3

I will pour refreshing water on the thirsty and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your children, my blessing upon your descendants.

Isaiah 49:26

I will cause the violence of your oppressors to come back upon them, and your enemies will kill one another in a killing frenzy! Then all the earth will know that I am Yahweh, your Savior, your Kinsman-Redeemer, the mighty hero of Jacob’s tribes.”

Isaiah 66:23

From one Sabbath to the next, one month to the next, one year to the next, all humanity will come to worship me!

Ezekiel 11:19

I will give you a new, undivided heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn heart of stone and give you a tender heart that responds to me—a devoted heart.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my Spirit on the people of Israel, and my divine presence will never again leave them. I, Lord Yahweh, have spoken.”

Daniel 10:14

Now I have come to help you comprehend what will happen to your people in the final days, for the vision pertains to a time still to come.”

John 17:2

You have already given me authority over all people so that I may give the gift of eternal life to all those that you have given to me.

John 7:39

Jesus was prophesying about the Holy Spirit that believers were being prepared to receive. But the Holy Spirit had not yet been poured out upon them, because Jesus had not yet been unveiled in his full splendor.

Acts 10:45

The Jewish brothers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on people who weren’t Jews,

Acts 11:27

At that time there were prophets in the church of Jerusalem, and some of them came to Antioch.

Acts 11:28

One of them, named Agabus, stood up in one of the meetings and prophesied by the Holy Spirit that a severe famine was about to come over Israel. (This prophecy was fulfilled during the reign of Claudius Caesar.)

Acts 2:16

This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says:

Acts 2:18

The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy.

Acts 2:33

“Then God exalted him to his right hand upon the throne of highest honor. And the Father gave him the authority to send the promised Holy Spirit, which is being poured out upon us today. This is what you’re seeing and hearing!

Acts 21:9

the father of four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Romans 5:5

And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, because we can now experience the endless love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us!

1 Corinthians 12:10

And to another the power to work miracles. And to another the gift of prophecy. And to another the gift to discern what the Spirit is speaking. And to another the gift of speaking different kinds of tongues. And to another the gift of interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 12:28

God has placed in the church the following: First apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those with gifts of miracles, gifts of divine healing, gifts of revelation knowledge, gifts of leadership, and gifts of different kinds of tongues.

Hebrews 1:2

But to us living in these last days, God now speaks to us openly in the language of a Son, the appointed Heir of everything, for through him God created the panorama of all things and all time.

James 5:3

and your gold and silver are corroded as a witness against you. You have hoarded up treasure for the last days but it will become a fire to burn your flesh.

2 Peter 3:3

Above all, you must understand that in the last days mockers will multiply, chasing after their evil desires.