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 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• Isa 42:6“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
• Isa 45:22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• Zech 8:20–23Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Ps 72:7–8In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
• Isa 2:1–3This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
• Isa 52:10Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
• Isa 42:1“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights — I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
• Isa 24:13–16For it will be so within the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
• Isa 42:9–12Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
• Ps 98:2–3Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
• Mic 4:2–3Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
• Ps 117:1–2Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Ps 22:27–29All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
• Amos 9:12that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
• Isa 59:19–20So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
• Zech 2:11Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
• Isa 60:3Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
• Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
• Matt 28:19Go, 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 way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
• Mark 16:15He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
• Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Ps 96:1–2Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
• Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Acts 15:14–16Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.
• Zeph 3:9–10For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
• Jer 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

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