Acts 2:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then everyone who callson the name of the Lord will be saved.

King James Version (1611)
And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

King James Version
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

English Standard Version
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

New American Standard Bible
'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'

New Century Version
Then anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved.' Joel 2:28–32

Amplified Bible
'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord Jesus] SHALL BE SAVED (rescued spiritually).'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Berean Standard Bible
And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Contemporary English Version
Then the Lord will save everyone who asks for his help."

Complete Jewish Bible
And then, whoever calls on the name of Adonai will be saved."'

Darby Translation
And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of [the] Lord shall be saved.

Easy-to-Read Version
And everyone who trusts in the Lord will be saved.'

Geneva Bible (1587)
And it shalbe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

George Lamsa Translation
And it shall come to pass that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Good News Translation
And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.'

Lexham English Bible
And it will be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Literal Translation
"And it shall be that everyone who shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved." Joel 2:28-32

American Standard Version
And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Bible in Basic English
And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.

Hebrew Names Version
It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

International Standard Version
Then whoever calls on the name of the LordRomans 10:13;">[xr] will be saved.'Joel 2:28-32">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
And every one who shall call [fn] the name Of the Lord shall be saved.

Murdock Translation
And it shall be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord, shall live.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer shall call on the name of the Lorde, shalbe saued.

English Revised Version
And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

World English Bible
It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

Weymouth's New Testament
and every one who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it schal be, ech man which euere schal clepe to help the name of the Lord, schal be saaf.

Update Bible Version
And it shall be, that everyone who shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

New English Translation
And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved .'

New King James Version
And it shall come to passThat whoever calls on the name of the LordShall be saved.' Joel 2:28-32 ">[fn]

New Living Translation
But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

New Life Bible
It will be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved from the punishment of sin.'

New Revised Standard
Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it shall be - Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shalt come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Revised Standard Version
And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And it shalbe that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lorde shalbe saved.

Young's Literal Translation
and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And it shall come to passe, Who so euer shal call vpo the name of the LORDE, shalbe saued.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and then whoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved."

Simplified Cowboy Version
But everyone who asks Jesus to save them will be saved.'

Contextual Overview

¹⁴That's when Peter stood up and, backed by the other eleven, spoke out with bold urgency: "Fellow Jews, all of you who are visiting Jerusalem, listen carefully and get this story straight. These people aren't drunk as some of you suspect. They haven't had time to get drunk—it's only nine o'clock in the morning. This is what the prophet Joel announced would happen: "In the Last Days," God says, "I will pour out my Spirit on every kind of people: Your sons will prophesy, also your daughters; Your young men will see visions, your old men dream dreams. When the time comes, I'll pour out my Spirit On those who serve me, men and women both, and they'll prophesy. I'll set wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth below, Blood and fire and billowing smoke, the sun turning black and the moon blood-red, Before the Day of the Lord arrives, the Day tremendous and marvelous; And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved." ²²"Fellow Israelites, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man thoroughly accredited by God to you—the miracles and wonders and signs that God did through him are common knowledge—this Jesus, following the deliberate and well-thought-out plan of God, was betrayed by men who took the law into their own hands, and was handed over to you. And you pinned him to a cross and killed him. But God untied the death ropes and raised him up. Death was no match for him. David said it all: I saw God before me for all time. Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side. I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope. I know you'll never dump me in Hades; I'll never even smell the stench of death. You've got my feet on the life-path, with your face shining sun-joy all around. ²⁹"Dear friends, let me be completely frank with you. Our ancestor David is dead and buried—his tomb is in plain sight today. But being also a prophet and knowing that God had solemnly sworn that a descendant of his would rule his kingdom, seeing far ahead, he talked of the resurrection of the Messiah—‘no trip to Hades, no stench of death.' This Jesus, God raised up. And every one of us here is a witness to it. Then, raised to the heights at the right hand of God and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out the Spirit he had just received. That is what you see and hear. For David himself did not ascend to heaven, but he did say, God said to my Master, "Sit at my right hand Until I make your enemies a stool for resting your feet." "All Israel, then, know this: There's no longer room for doubt—God made him Master and Messiah, this Jesus whom you killed on a cross."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whosoever: Acts 9:11, Acts 9:15, Acts 22:16, Psalms 86:5, Joel 2:32, Matthew 28:19, Romans 10:12, Romans 10:13, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Hebrews 4:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:26 - Enos Genesis 12:8 - called Joshua 6:25 - Rahab 2 Chronicles 14:11 - cried unto Psalms 18:3 - so shall Jeremiah 33:3 - Call Zechariah 13:9 - they shall call Acts 7:59 - calling

Cross-References

1 Samuel 26:12
David took the spear and water jug that were right beside Saul's head, and they slipped away. Not a soul saw. Not a soul knew. No one woke up! They all slept through the whole thing. A blanket of deep sleep from God had fallen on them.

Job 33:15
"In a dream, for instance, a vision at night, when men and women are deep in sleep, fast asleep in their beds— God opens their ears and impresses them with warnings To turn them back from something bad they're planning, from some reckless choice, And keep them from an early grave, from the river of no return.

Proverbs 19:15
Life collapses on loafers; lazybones go hungry.

Daniel 8:18
A Vision of a Ram and a Billy Goat "In King Belshazzar's third year as king, another vision came to me, Daniel. This was now the second vision. "In the vision, I saw myself in Susa, the capital city of the province Elam, standing at the Ulai Canal. Looking around, I was surprised to see a ram also standing at the gate. The ram had two huge horns, one bigger than the other, but the bigger horn was the last to appear. I watched as the ram charged: first west, then north, then south. No beast could stand up to him. He did just as he pleased, strutting as if he were king of the beasts. "While I was watching this, wondering what it all meant, I saw a billy goat with an immense horn in the middle of its forehead come up out of the west and fly across the whole country, not once touching the ground. The billy goat approached the double-horned ram that I had earlier seen standing at the gate and, enraged, charged it viciously. I watched as, mad with rage, it charged the ram and hit it so hard that it broke off its two horns. The ram didn't stand a chance against it. The billy goat knocked the ram to the ground and stomped all over it. Nothing could have saved the ram from the goat. "Then the billy goat swelled to an enormous size. At the height of its power its immense horn broke off and four other big horns sprouted in its place, pointing to the four points of the compass. And then from one of these big horns another horn sprouted. It started small, but then grew to an enormous size, facing south and east—toward lovely Palestine. The horn grew tall, reaching to the stars, the heavenly army, and threw some of the stars to the earth and stomped on them. It even dared to challenge the power of God, Prince of the Celestial Army! And then it threw out daily worship and desecrated the Sanctuary. As judgment against their sin, the holy people of God got the same treatment as the daily worship. The horn cast God's Truth aside. High-handed, it took over everything and everyone. "Then I overheard two holy angels talking. One asked, ‘How long is what we see here going to last—the abolishing of daily worship, this devastating judgment against sin, the kicking around of God's holy people and the Sanctuary?' "The other answered, ‘Over the course of 2,300 sacrifices, evening and morning. Then the Sanctuary will be set right again.' "While I, Daniel, was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, suddenly there was a humanlike figure standing before me. "Then I heard a man's voice from over by the Ulai Canal calling out, ‘Gabriel, tell this man what is going on. Explain the vision to him.' He came up to me, but when he got close I became terrified and fell facedown on the ground. "He said, ‘Understand that this vision has to do with the time of the end.' As soon as he spoke, I fainted, my face in the dirt. But he picked me up and put me on my feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass,.... Even at that time, when these signs shall appear, and the destruction is hastening on, that

whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord; shall believe in the Lord Jesus Christ with the heart, and shall confess him with the mouth, and shall worship him in Spirit and in truth, and submit to all his ordinances and commands; for invocation of the Lord includes the whole of worship, internal and external:

shall be saved; or delivered from that temporal destruction which came upon the Jews, as the Christians were by removing from Jerusalem to Pella, as they were directed u; and shall be saved with a spiritual and everlasting salvation by Jesus Christ;

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u Vid. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whosoever shall call - In the midst of these wonders and dangers, whosoever should call on the Lord should be delivered (Joel). The name of the Lord is the same as the Lord himself. It is a Hebraism, signifying to call on the Lord, Psalms 79:6; Zechariah 13:9.

Shall be saved - In Hebrew, shall be delivered, that is, from impending calamities. When they threaten, and God is coming forth to judge them, it shall be that those who are characterized as those who call on the Lord shall be delivered. This is equally true at all times. It is remarkable that no Christians perished in the siege of Jerusalem. Though more than a million of Jews perished, yet the followers of Christ who were there, having been warned by him, when they saw the signs of the Romans approaching, withdrew to Aelia, and were preserved. So it shall be in the day of judgment. All whose character it has been that “they called on God” will then be saved. While the wicked will then call on the rocks and the mountains to shelter them from the Lord, those who have invoked his favor and mercy will find deliverance. The use which Peter makes of this passage is this: Calamities were about to come; the day of judgment was approaching; they were passing through the last days of the earth’s history, and therefore it became them to call on the name of the Lord, and to obtain deliverance from the dangers which impended over the guilty. There can be little doubt that Peter intended to apply this to the Messiah, and that by the name of the Lord he meant the Lord Jesus. See 1 Corinthians 1:2. Paul makes the same use of the passage, expressly applying it to the Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 10:13-14. In Joel, the word translated “Lord” is יהוה Yahweh, the incommunicable and unique name of God; and the use of the passage before us in the New Testament shows how the apostles regarded the Lord Jesus Christ, and proves that they had no hesitation in applying to him names and attributes which could belong to no one but God.

This verse teaches us:

1. That in prospect of the judgments of God which are to come, we should make preparation. We shall be called to pass through the closing scenes of this earth; the time when the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, and when the great day of the Lord shall come.

2. It is easy to be saved. All that God requires of us is to call upon him, to pray to him, and he will answer and save. If people will not do so easy a thing as to call on God, and ask him for salvation, it is obviously proper that they should be cast off. The terms of salvation could not be made plainer or easier. The offer is wide, free, universal, and there is no obstacle but what exists in the heart of the sinner.

And from this part of Peter’s vindication of the scene on the day of Pentecost we may learn also:

1. That revivals of religion are to be expected as a part of the history of the Christian church. He speaks of God’s pouring out his Spirit, etc., as what was to take place in the last days, that is, in the indefinite and large tract of time which was to come, under the administration of the Messiah. His remarks are by no means limited to the day of Pentecost. They are as applicable to future periods as to that time; and we are to expect it as a part of Christian history, that the Holy Spirit will be sent down to awaken and convert people.

2. This will also vindicate revivals from all the changes which have ever been brought against them. All the objections of irregularity, extravagance, wildfire, enthusiasm, disorder, etc., which have been alleged against revivals in modern times, might have been brought with equal propriety against the scene on the day of Pentecost. Yet an apostle showed that that was in accordance with the predictions of the Old Testament, and was an undoubted work of the Holy Spirit. If that work could be vindicated, then modern revivals may be. If that was really liable to no objections on these accounts, then modern works of grace should not be objected to for the same things. And if that excited deep interest in the apostles; if they felt deep concern to vindicate it from the charge brought against it, then Christians and Christian ministers now should feel similar solicitude to defend revivals, and not be found among their revilers, their calumniators, or their foes. There will be enemies enough of the work of the Holy Spirit without the aid of professed Christians, and that man possesses no enviable feelings or character who is found with the enemies of God and his Christ in opposing the mighty work of the Holy Spirit on the human heart.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:21. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. — The predicted ruin is now impending; and only such as receive the Gospel of the Son of God shall be saved. And that none but the Christians did escape, when God poured out these judgments, is well known; and that ALL the Christians did escape, not one of them perishing in these devastations, stands attested by the most respectable authority. Matthew 24:13.