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Acts 13:47

That's what the Lord has told us to do: ‘I've made you a light to the foreigners, and through you salvation will go to the ends of the earth.’”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

In Context

46So Paul and Barnabas spoke out strongly, saying “We had to speak the word of God to you first. But now that you're rejecting it—you're deciding that you're not worthy of eternal life—well now we're turning to the foreigners.

48When the foreigners heard this they were overjoyed, praising the Lord's word, and all those chosen for eternal life trusted in God.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:27Everyone in the whole world will repent and return to the Lord; all the nations will worship before you.

Psalms 72:7May those who live right prosper under his rule; may there be great prosperity until the moon is no more.

Psalms 98:2The Lord has revealed his salvation to the nations, and shown them his goodness.

Isaiah 2:1This is the vision that Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 42:1Look! Here is my servant, the one I support; my chosen one who pleases me. I have placed my Spirit on him, and he will show the nations what is right.

Isaiah 42:9Notice that what I foretold has come true, as will the new things I'm saying to you now. I tell you what will happen before it does.”

Matthew Henry on Acts 13:43-52

Paul at Antioch in Pisidia. 42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. 43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. 44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake… Read the whole commentary →

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