Acts 2:21

2:21 And then ¹  everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ² 

Acts 9:14

9:14 and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison ³  all who call on your name!” ⁴ 

Acts 9:21

9:21 All ⁵  who heard him were amazed and were saying, “Is this not ⁶  the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging ⁷  those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners ⁸  to the chief priests?”

Acts 22:16

22:16 And now what are you waiting for? ⁹  Get up, ¹⁰  be baptized, and have your sins washed away, ¹¹  calling on his name.’ ¹² 

Joel 2:32

2:32 It will so happen that

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. ¹³ 

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem ¹⁴  there will be those who survive, ¹⁵ 

just as the Lord has promised;

the remnant ¹⁶  will be those whom the Lord will call. ¹⁷ 

Romans 10:12-14

10:12 For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him. 10:13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁸ 

10:14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them ¹⁹ ?

Romans 10:1

10:1 Brothers and sisters, ²⁰  my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites ²¹  is for their salvation.

Colossians 1:2

1:2 to the saints, the faithful ²²  brothers and sisters ²³  in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you ²⁴  from God our Father! ²⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “And it will be that.”

² sn A quotation from Joel 2:28-32.

³ tn Grk “to bind.”

⁴ sn The expression “those who call on your name” is a frequent description of believers (Acts 2:21; 1 Cor 1:2; Rom 10:13).

⁵ tn Grk “And all.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

⁶ tn The Greek interrogative particle used in this verse (οὐχ, ouc) expects a positive reply. They all knew about Saul’s persecutions.

⁷ tn Normally, “destroying,” but compare 4 Macc 4:23; 11:4 and MM 529 s.v. πορθέω for examples from Koine papyri. See also BDAG 853 s.v. πορθέω.

⁸ tn Grk “bring them bound”; the translation “bring someone as prisoner” for δεδεμένον ἄγειν τινά (dedemenon agein tina) is given by BDAG 221 s.v. δέω 1.b.

⁹ tn L&N 67.121 has “to extend time unduly, with the implication of lack of decision – ‘to wait, to delay.’ νῦν τί μέλλεις… ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι ‘what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized’ Ac 22:16.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.

¹¹ sn The expression have your sins washed away means “have your sins purified” (the washing is figurative).

¹² sn The expression calling on his name describes the confession of the believer: Acts 2:17-38, esp. v. 38; Rom 10:12-13; 1 Cor 1:2.

¹³ tn While a number of English versions render this as “saved” (e.g., NIV, NRSV, NLT), this can suggest a “spiritual” or “theological” salvation rather than the physical deliverance from the cataclysmic events of the day of the Lord described in the context.

¹⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁵ tn Heb “deliverance”; or “escape.” The abstract noun “deliverance” or “escape” probably functions here as an example of antimeria, referring to those who experience deliverance or escape with their lives: “escaped remnant” or “surviving remnant” (Gen 32:8; 45:7; Judg 21:17; 2 Kgs 19:30, 31; Isa 4:2; 10:20; 15:9; 37:31, 32; Ezek 14:22; Obad 1:17; Ezra 9:8, 13-15; Neh 1:2; 1 Chr 4:43; 2 Chr 30:6).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and among the remnant.”

¹⁷ tn The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to indicate action in the imminent future.

¹⁸ sn A quotation from Joel 2:32.

¹⁹ tn Grk “preaching”; the words “to them” are supplied for clarification.

²⁰ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

²¹ tn Grk “on behalf of them”; the referent (Paul’s fellow Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²² tn Grk “and faithful.” The construction in Greek (as well as Paul’s style) suggests that the saints are identical to the faithful; hence, the καί (kai) is best left untranslated (cf. Eph 1:1). See ExSyn 281-82.

²³ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

²⁴ tn Or “Grace to you and peace.”

²⁵ tc Most witnesses, including some important ones (א A C F G I [P] 075 Ï it bo), read “and the Lord Jesus Christ” at the end of this verse, no doubt to conform the wording to the typical Pauline salutation. However, excellent and early witnesses (B D K L Ψ 33 81 1175 1505 1739 1881 al sa) lack this phrase. Since the omission is inexplicable as arising from the longer reading (otherwise, these mss would surely have deleted the phrase in the rest of the corpus Paulinum), it is surely authentic.