Acts 13:47

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Cross References (35)

  • Isaiah 49:6 (38)

    He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones

  • Isaiah 42:6 (27)

    “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint yo

  • Luke 2:32 (22)

    a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

  • Isaiah 45:22 (9)

    Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

  • Zechariah 8:20–23 (7)

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

  • Isaiah 42:9–12 (6)

    Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

  • Isaiah 52:10 (6)

    The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our

  • Isaiah 24:13–16 (6)

    So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

  • Psalms 72:7–8 (6)

    May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound until the moon is no more.

  • Isaiah 42:1 (6)

    “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will br

  • Psalms 98:2–3 (6)

    The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.

  • Psalms 117:1–2 (6)

    Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!

  • Isaiah 2:1–3 (6)

    This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

  • Hosea 1:10 (6)

    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happ

  • Micah 4:2–3 (6)

    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. H

  • Acts 1:8 (5)

    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Ju

  • Amos 9:12 (5)

    that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

  • Zechariah 2:11 (5)

    “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and

  • Acts 22:21 (5)

    Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

  • Acts 26:17–18 (5)

    I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

  • Psalms 67:2–7 (5)

    that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

  • Psalms 22:27–29 (5)

    All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

  • Matthew 28:19 (5)

    Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy

  • Mark 16:15 (5)

    And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

  • Acts 9:15 (5)

    “Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before

  • Acts 26:23 (5)

    that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gent

  • Isaiah 59:19–20 (5)

    So shall they fear the name of the LORD where the sun sets, and His glory where it rises. For He will come like a raging

  • Isaiah 60:3 (5)

    Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

  • Malachi 1:11 (4)

    For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure

  • Psalms 96:1–2 (4)

    Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.

  • Luke 24:47 (4)

    and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

  • Acts 15:14–16 (3)

    Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

  • Zephaniah 3:9–10 (3)

    For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to

  • Micah 5:7 (3)

    Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which

  • Jeremiah 16:19 (2)

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the