Acts 13:47

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“For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’””

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BSBPD

“For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations--for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 13:47 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
  2. Psalms 67:2that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
  3. Psalms 72:7May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.
  4. Psalms 96:1Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
  5. Psalms 98:2The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
  6. Psalms 117:1Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
  7. Isaiah 2:1This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
  8. Isaiah 24:13So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
  9. Isaiah 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
  10. Isaiah 42:6“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
  11. Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
  12. Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  13. Isaiah 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
  14. Isaiah 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
  15. 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.
  16. Isaiah 60:3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
  17. Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
  18. Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
  19. Amos 9:12that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
  20. Micah 4:2And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  21. Micah 5:7Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
  22. Zephaniah 3:9For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
  23. Zechariah 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
  24. Zechariah 8:20This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

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