Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Holman Bible

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

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.

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."

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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

the promise
ἐπαγγελία 
Epaggelia 
Usage: 51

is
ἐστί 
Esti 
is, are, was, be, have, not tr, , vr is
Usage: 585

ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

to
τέκνον 
Teknon 
Usage: 69

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

τέκνον 
Teknon 
Usage: 69

to all
πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

are
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

μακράν 
Makran 
Usage: 7

even as many as
ὅσος 
Hosos 
Usage: 76

the Lord
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

Context Readings

The Response To Peter's Sermon

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 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. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.


Cross References

Joel 2:32

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

Acts 10:45

And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 15:8

And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

Romans 8:30

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Ephesians 4:4

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Genesis 17:7-8

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Psalm 115:14-15

The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

Isaiah 54:13

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

Isaiah 59:19

So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

Jeremiah 32:39-40

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Ezekiel 37:25

And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

Joel 2:28

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

Acts 3:25-26

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Acts 11:15-18

And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

Acts 14:27

And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

Acts 15:3

And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

Acts 15:14

Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Romans 9:4

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Romans 9:24

Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

Romans 11:16-17

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Ephesians 1:18

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 2:13-22

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 3:5-8

Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

2 Thessalonians 1:11

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

2 Timothy 1:9

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Hebrews 3:1

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Hebrews 9:15

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

1 Peter 5:10

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

2 Peter 1:3

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

2 Peter 1:10

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

Revelation 17:14

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Revelation 19:9

And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

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