Acts 2:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The promise

Acts 3:25

Romans 11:16

1 Corinthians 7:14

And to all

As many

Bible References

The promise

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, the whole mass is, and if the root of a tree is consecrated, so are its branches.

For the husband who is not a believer is consecrated through union with his wife, and the woman who is not a believer is consecrated through union with her Christian husband, for otherwise your children would be unblessed, but, as it is, they are consecrated.

And to all

The Jewish believers who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the holy Spirit had been showered upon the heathen too,

When I began to speak to them, the holy Spirit fell upon them just as it did upon us at the beginning,

When they arrived there, they called the church together, and reported how God had worked with them, and how he had opened the way to faith for the heathen.

The church saw them off upon their journey, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the heathen, and caused great rejoicing among all the brothers.

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

(which in past ages was not disclosed to mankind as fully as it has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets)

As many

and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen?

for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.

enlightening the eyes of your mind so that you may know what the hope is to which he calls you, and how gloriously rich his inheritance is among God's people,

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope that belongs to the summons you received.

To this end we always pray for you too, asking our God to find you worthy of the call he has given you, and by his power to fulfil every desire you may have for goodness, and every effort of your faith,

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

And this is why he is the negotiator of a new agreement, in order that as someone has died to deliver them from the offenses committed under the old agreement, those who have been offered it may receive the unending inheritance they have been promised.

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.

They will make war upon the Lamb, and the Lamb with his elect, chosen, and faithful followers with him will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings.

Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are they who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' These," he said to me, "are the true words of God."