Acts 1:8

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⁸but you will receive power ^(A)when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be ^(B)My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and ^(C)Samaria, and as far as ^(D)the remotest part of the earth.”

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Ezekiel 37:24-28

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The Davidic Kingdom

²⁴“And My servant ^(A)David will be king over them, and they will all have ^(B)one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and ^[a]follow them. ²⁵And they will live on the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and My servant ^(C)David will be their leader forever. ²⁶And I will make a ^(D)covenant of peace with them; it will be an ^(E)everlasting covenant with them. And I will ^[b]place them and ^(F)multiply them, and set My ^(G)sanctuary in their midst forever. ²⁷My ^(H)dwelling place also will be among them; and ^(I)I will be their God, and they will be My people. ²⁸And the nations will know that I am the Lord ^(J)who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.”’”

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 37:24 Lit do them
Ezekiel 37:26 Lit give

Deuteronomy 30

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Restoration Promised

30 “So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, ^(A)the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you ^[a]call them to mind ^(B)in all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you, ²and you ^(C)return to the Lord your God and ^[b]obey Him ^(D)with all your heart and soul in accordance with everything that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, ³then the Lord your God will ^(E)restore ^[c]you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and ^(F)will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has ^(G)scattered you. ⁴If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ^[d]ends of the earth, ^(H)from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will ^[e]bring you back. ⁵^(I)The Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will be good to you and ^(J)make you more numerous than your fathers.

⁶“Moreover, ^(K)the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your ^[f]descendants, ^(L)to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live. ⁷^(M)And the Lord your God will ^[g]inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. ⁸And you will again ^[h]obey the Lord, and ^[i]follow all His commandments which I am commanding you today. ⁹^(N)Then the Lord your God will prosper you ^[j]abundantly in every work of your hand, in the ^[k]children of your womb, the ^[l]offspring of your cattle, and in the ^[m]produce of your ground, for ^(O)the Lord will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; ¹⁰^[n]if you ^[o]obey the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which ^(P)are written in this Book of the Law, ^[p]if you turn to the Lord your God ^(Q)with all your heart and soul.

¹¹“For this commandment which I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it far away. ¹²It is not in heaven, ^[q]that you could say, ‘^(R)Who will go up to heaven for us and get it for us, and proclaim it to us, so that we may ^[r]follow it?’ ¹³Nor is it beyond the sea, ^[s]that you could say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and proclaim it to us, so that we may ^[t]follow it?’ ¹⁴On the contrary, the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may ^[u]follow it.

Choose Life

¹⁵“See, ^(S)I have placed before you today life and ^[v]happiness, and death and ^[w]adversity, ¹⁶in that I am commanding you today ^(T)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^(U)may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. ¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸I declare to you today that ^(V)you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[x]and take possession of it. ¹⁹^(W)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(X)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[y]descendants, ²⁰^(Y)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(Z)by holding close to Him; ^(AA)for ^[z]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[aa]so that you may live in ^(AB)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

Footnotes

Deuteronomy 30:1 Lit return them to your heart
Deuteronomy 30:2 Lit listen to His voice
Deuteronomy 30:3 Lit your captivity
Deuteronomy 30:4 Lit end of the sky
Deuteronomy 30:4 Lit take you
Deuteronomy 30:6 Lit seed
Deuteronomy 30:7 Lit give
Deuteronomy 30:8 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 30:8 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 30:9 Lit for good
Deuteronomy 30:9 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 30:9 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 30:9 Lit fruit
Deuteronomy 30:10 Or for you will
Deuteronomy 30:10 Lit listen to the voice of
Deuteronomy 30:10 Or for you will
Deuteronomy 30:12 Lit to say
Deuteronomy 30:12 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 30:13 Lit to say
Deuteronomy 30:13 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 30:14 Lit perform
Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit good
Deuteronomy 30:15 Lit evil
Deuteronomy 30:18 Lit to
Deuteronomy 30:19 Lit seed
Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit that
Deuteronomy 30:20 Lit to dwell

Isaiah 2:1-5

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God’s Universal Reign

2 The word which ^(A)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²Now it will come about that
^(B)In the last days
The ^(C)mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established ^[a]as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And ^(D)all the nations will stream to it.
³And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
So that He may teach us ^[b]about His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For ^[c]the law will go out ^(E)from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴And He will judge between the nations,
And will mediate for many peoples;
And ^(F)they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives.
^(G)Nation will not lift up a sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.

⁵Come, ^(H)house of Jacob, and let’s walk in the ^(I)light of the Lord.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 2:2 Lit on
Isaiah 2:3 Or some of
Isaiah 2:3 Or instruction

Ephesians 2:12

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¹²remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, ^[a]^(A)excluded from ^[b]the people of Israel, and strangers to ^(B)the covenants of the promise, having ^(C)no hope and ^(D)without God in the world.