Acts 2:39

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“This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.””

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BSBPD

“This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 2:39 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  2. Psalms 115:14May the LORD give you increase, both you and your children.
  3. Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
  4. Isaiah 54:13Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
  5. Isaiah 57:19bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
  6. Isaiah 59:19So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
  7. Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
  8. Ezekiel 37:25They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
  9. Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
  10. Joel 2:32And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.
  11. Acts 3:25And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
  12. Acts 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
  13. Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
  14. Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
  15. Acts 15:3Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.
  16. Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
  17. Acts 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
  18. Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
  19. Romans 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
  20. Romans 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
  21. Romans 11:16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
  22. Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
  23. 1 Corinthians 7:14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  24. Ephesians 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

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