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

And to all

Ephesians 3:5

As many

General references

Psalm 112:2

Bible References

The promise

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he told Abraham, "Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.

May the LORD add to your numbers to you and to your descendants.

I'll give them one heart and one lifestyle so they'll fear me always for their own good and for the good of their descendants after them.

They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob and on which your ancestors lived. They will live in that land, along with their children and grandchildren, forever. David my servant will be their everlasting leader.

"Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions.

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

And to all

Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles, too,

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

They were sent on their way by the church, and as they were going through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the gentiles and brought great joy to all the brothers.

So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.

But now, in union with the Messiah Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

which in previous generations was not made known to human beings as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets. This is that secret:

As many

And everyone who calls upon the name of the LORD will be delivered. For as the LORD has said, "In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, the survivors whom the LORD is calling.'"

And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

including us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but from the gentiles as well?

For God's gifts and calling never change.

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

There is one body and one Spirit. Likewise, you were called to the one hope of your calling.

With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action.

At all times we are obligated to thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you to be the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through faith in the truth.

He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own accomplishments, but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.

Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

This is why the Messiah is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you by the Messiah Jesus to his eternal glory, will restore you, establish you, strengthen you, and support you.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

They will wage war against the lamb, but the lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those who are called, chosen, and faithful are with him."

Then the angel told me, "Write this: "How blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb!'" He also told me, "These are the true words of God."

General references

His descendants will be powerful in the land, a generation of the upright who will be blessed.