Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- BSB Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- NKJV “Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
- NASB “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.
- NLT Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.
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Quick answer
God invites all the ends of the earth to look to him and be saved, for he alone is God. Salvation is offered freely to everyone who turns to him.
Overview
This is one of Scripture's great evangelistic calls: 'Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth.' Salvation comes simply by turning the gaze of faith to the one true God. Christians have always heard here the universal gospel offer, fulfilled in Christ lifted up so that all who look to him in faith may live.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Zech 12:10And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
- Num 21:8–9And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
- John 3:13–16And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
- 2 Chr 20:12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
- Isa 45:21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
- John 10:28–30And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
- Titus 2:13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
- Ps 65:5By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
- 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
- Ps 22:17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- Isa 49:12Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
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