Acts 13:47

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Summary

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.

So

Luke 24:47

I have

Luke 2:32

That thou

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Bible References

So

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles--to whom I am sending you

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

I have

that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."

And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."

That thou

Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.

In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!

Oh sing to the LORDa new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!

The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them."

"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives.

O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God."

that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.

and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.

"For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.

And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.

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And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,

Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.'

But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,