Acts 2:39

World English Bible (2000)

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."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμῖν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἐπαγγελία, καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς εἰς μακράν, ὅσους ἂν προσκαλέσηται Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

To you gar estin the epangelia, and to the teknois of you, and to all those at makran, as many as an proskalēsētai Kurios the Theos of us.

Grammar Details

• *gar*: conjunction - for
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *epangelia*: nominative, feminine, singular - promise
• *teknois*: dative, neuter, plural - to children
• *makran*: accusative, feminine, singular - far/distant
• *an*: particle - modal particle with subjunctive
• *proskalēsētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular - he might call to himself
• *Kurios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *estin*: is/exists/belongs
• *epangelia*: promise/pledge
• *teknois*: children/descendants/offspring
• *makran*: far/distant/far away
• *proskalēsētai*: might call/summon/invite
• *Kurios*: Lord/Master
• *Theos*: God/deity

Referenced Verses

• Joel 2:32 : 32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
• Rom 8:30 : 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
• Eph 4:4 : 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
• Acts 15:8 : 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
• 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
• Acts 10:45 : 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
• Isa 44:3 : 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Isa 54:13 : 13 All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
• Isa 57:19 : 19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near," says Yahweh; "and I will heal them."
• Isa 59:19 : 19 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
• Jer 32:39-40 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Ezek 37:25 : 25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
• Joel 2:28 : 28 "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• Ps 115:14-15 : 14 May Yahweh increase you more and more, you and your children. 15 Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
• Acts 3:25-26 : 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.' 26 God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."
• Acts 11:15-18 : 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning. 16 I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.' 17 If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?" 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
• Acts 14:27 : 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Acts 15:3 : 3 They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
• Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
• Rom 9:24 : 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Rom 11:16-17 : 16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
• Rom 11:29 : 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
• Heb 9:15 : 15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
• Rev 19:9 : 9 He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.'" He said to me, "These are true words of God."
• Acts 15:14 : 14 Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
• 2 Thess 1:11 : 11 To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 14 to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Eph 2:13-22 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 15 having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• Eph 3:5-8 : 5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; 6 that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News, 7 of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power. 8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,