But y’all will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you*. Y’all will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Y’all didn’t choose me, but I chose y’all and appointed y’all so that y’all would go and bear fruit, and that y’all’s fruit should remain. And so that whatever y’all ask in my name, the Father will give to y’all.
if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a deacon.
but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the ethnic groups, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
I saw an angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who inhabit the earth—to every ethnic group, tribe, tongue, and people.
which has come to y’all. It is also bearing fruit and growing in all the world, as it does in y’all, since the day y’all heard and knew the grace of God in truth.
Indeed, 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 preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”