New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Acts 2:39
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This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
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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.
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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.”
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ASVAmerican 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.
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For the promise is to you⁺ and to your⁺ children and to all those at a distance, as many as [the] Lord our God shall summon.”
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Acts 2
37 When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 Peter replied, “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 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
40 With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
41 Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
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