Parallel Verses
Common New Testament
For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call to himself."
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off,
International Standard Version
For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."
A Conservative Version
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those in afar, as many as Lord our God may call.
American Standard Version
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
Amplified
For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is for you and your children and for all who are far away [including the Gentiles], as many as the Lord our God calls to Himself.”
An Understandable Version
For the promise [of forgiveness and the Holy Spirit] is being given to you [Jews] and to your descendants and [also] to all those who are far away [i.e., Gentiles. See Eph. 2:17]. [This promise is] to as many as [respond to] the Lord, our God's call [through the Gospel, See II Thess. 2:14]."
Anderson New Testament
For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Bible in Basic English
For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Darby Translation
For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.
Godbey New Testament
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, so many as the Lord our God may call.
Goodspeed New Testament
for the promise of it belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those far away whom the Lord our God calls to him."
John Wesley New Testament
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.
Julia Smith Translation
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those [who are] far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."
Modern King James verseion
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"For the promise was made unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar, even as many as the Lord God shall call."
Moffatt New Testament
For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."
Montgomery New Testament
"For the promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are afar off, whomever the Lord may call."
NET Bible
For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
New Heart English Bible
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
Noyes New Testament
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Sawyer New Testament
For the promise is to you and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
The Emphasized Bible
For, unto you, is the promise, and unto your children, - and unto all them who are afar off: as many soever as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off; even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For the promise is for you and for your children, and also for all those now far away, who may be called by the Lord our God."
Webster
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Weymouth New Testament
For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."
Williams New Testament
for the promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are far away whom the Lord our God may call to Him."
World English Bible
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
Worrell New Testament
for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off??s many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."
Worsley New Testament
for the promise is to you and to your children, yea and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Youngs Literal Translation
for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'
Themes
Children » Promises and assurances to
Children » Of God's people, interested in the promises
Children » Promises to special promises to children, examples of » Children of believers
Children » Special promises to children, examples of » Children of believers
Children » Good » Partake of the promises of God
Good Children » Partake of the promises of God
the Gift of the Holy Spirit » Given » According to promise
God's Promises » Special promises to children, examples of » Children of believers
Home » Special promises to children, examples of » Children of believers
Orator » Instances of » Apostles
Peter » Preaches on pentecost day
Preaching » Effective » By peter and other apostles
The promises of God » Made to » All who are called of God
Religious zeal » Instances of » Peter
Revivals » Instances of » At pentecost, and times after pentecost
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 2:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Response To Peter's Sermon
38 And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call to himself." 40 And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation."
Cross References
Acts 10:45
All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
Acts 15:8
And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he also did to us;
Romans 8:30
And those whom he predestined, he also called; those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified.
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
Acts 3:25-26
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'
Acts 11:15-18
As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.
Acts 14:27
When they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Acts 15:3
So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren.
Acts 15:14
Simeon has related how God first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for his name.
Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
Romans 9:24
even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
Romans 11:16-17
If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole lump is holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
Ephesians 1:18
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 2:13-22
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 3:5-8
which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
2 Thessalonians 1:11
To this end we always pray for you, that our God may count you worthy of his calling, and may fulfill every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
2 Timothy 1:9
who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and the grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Hebrews 9:15
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.
2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and excellence.
2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brethren, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall;
Revelation 17:14
These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with him are the called and chosen and faithful."
Revelation 19:9
Then the angel said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" And he said to me, "These are true words of God."