Acts 2:39
Modern Translations
New International Version
The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."

New Living Translation
This promise is to you, to your children, and to those far away—all who have been called by the Lord our God.”

English Standard Version
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Berean Study Bible
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

New American Standard Bible
For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

NASB 1995
"For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself."

NASB 1977
“For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself.”

Amplified Bible
For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is for you and your children and for all who are far away [including the Gentiles], as many as the Lord our God calls to Himself.”

Christian Standard Bible
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call."

Contemporary English Version
This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live."

Good News Translation
For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away--all whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This promise belongs to you and to your children and to everyone who is far away. It belongs to everyone who worships the Lord our God."

International Standard Version
For this promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are distant, whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

NET Bible
For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

New King James Version
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

King James 2000 Bible
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

New Heart English Bible
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."

World English Bible
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."

American King James Version
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.

American Standard Version
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

A Faithful Version
For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call."

Darby Bible Translation
For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who [are] afar off, as many as [the] Lord our God may call.

English Revised Version
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to all that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For the promise was made vnto you, and to your chyldren, and to all that are a farre of, euen as many as the Lorde our God shall call.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For this promyse was made vnto you and youre children, and to all that are farre of, who so euer the LORDE oure God shal call.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For ye promyse was made vnto you and to youre chyldre and to all that are afarre even as many as ye Lorde oure God shall call.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for the promise is to you and to your children, and to all those far off, as many as the LORD our God will call.”

Berean Literal Bible
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all those at a distance, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself."

Young's Literal Translation
for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

Smith's Literal Translation
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all afar off, as many as the Lord our God should call.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all those at a distance, as many as the Lord our God shall call to.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the Promise is for you and for your sons, and for all who are far away: for whomever the Lord our God will have called.”

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“For The Promise is to you and to your children and to all those who are afar off, those whom God shall call.”

Lamsa Bible
For the promise was made to you and to your children, and for all of those who are far off, even as many as the very God shall call.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For the promise is to you, and your children, and to all that are afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Godbey New Testament
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all who are afar off, so many as the Lord our God may call.

Haweis New Testament
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off; even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Mace New Testament
for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Weymouth New Testament
For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

Worrell New Testament
for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off?as many as the Lord our God shall call to Him."

Worsley New Testament
for the promise is to you and to your children, yea and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
















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