Acts 13:47

They justify this turn by Isaiah's word that the Lord set them as a light to the Gentiles, bringing salvation to the ends of the earth. Scripture mandates the Gentile mission.

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• Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
• Isa 42:6“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
• Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Zech 8:20–23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Ps 72:7–8May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.
• Isa 2:1–3This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
• Isa 52:10The 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 God.
• Isa 42:1“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 bring justice to the nations.
• Isa 24:13–16So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
• Isa 42:9–12Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
• Ps 98:2–3The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
• Mic 4:2–3And 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. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Ps 117:1–2Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
• Acts 9:15“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.
• Acts 26:17–18I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
• Ps 22:27–29All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
• Amos 9:12that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
• Isa 59:19–20So 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 flood, driven by the breath of the LORD.
• Zech 2:11“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
• Isa 60:3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
• Acts 26:23that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
• Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
• Ps 67:2–7that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.
• Mark 16:15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
• Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
• Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
• Ps 96:1–2Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
• Mal 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Mic 5:7Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
• Acts 15:14–16Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
• Zeph 3:9–10For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
• Jer 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

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