Acts 2:21

21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’^[a]

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Acts 2:21 in Other Translations

KJV

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

ESV

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

NLT

21 But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.’

MSG

21 And whoever calls out for help to me, God, will be saved."

CSB

21 then whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Acts 2:21 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 2:21

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 ^F21; and shall be saved with a spiritual and everlasting salvation by Jesus Christ; (See Gill on Romans 10:13).

FOOTNOTES:

F21 Vid. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 3. c. 5.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Acts 2:21 In-Context

19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

22 “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.

23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.

Cross References 2

1. Genesis 4:26; Genesis 26:25; Psalms 105:1; Acts 9:14; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Timothy 2:22
2. Joel 2:28-32; Romans 10:13

Footnotes 1

[a]. Joel 2:28-32