Acts 22:21

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“Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’””

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BSBPD

“Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 22:21 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
  2. Acts 13:2While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
  3. Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
  4. Acts 18:6But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
  5. Acts 26:17I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
  6. Romans 1:5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
  7. Romans 11:13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry
  8. Romans 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  9. Romans 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—
  10. Galatians 1:15But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
  11. Galatians 2:7On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.
  12. Ephesians 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
  13. 1 Timothy 2:7For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.
  14. 2 Timothy 1:11to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

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