Joel 2:32

2:32 It will so happen that

everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. ¹ 

For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem ²  there will be those who survive, ³ 

just as the Lord has promised;

the remnant ⁴  will be those whom the Lord will call. ⁵ 

Zephaniah 3:9

3:9 Know for sure that I will then enable

the nations to give me acceptable praise. ⁶ 

All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray, ⁷ 

and will worship him in unison. ⁸ 

Acts 2:21

2:21 And then ⁹  everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ¹⁰ 

Acts 11:26

11:26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. ¹¹  So ¹²  for a whole year Barnabas and Saul ¹³  met with the church and taught a significant number of people. ¹⁴  Now it was in Antioch ¹⁵  that the disciples were first called Christians. ¹⁶ 

Romans 10:13

10:13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. ¹⁷ 

Romans 10:1

10:1 Brothers and sisters, ¹⁸  my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites ¹⁹  is for their salvation.

Colossians 1:2

1:2 to the saints, the faithful ²⁰  brothers and sisters ²¹  in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you ²²  from God our Father! ²³ 

Ephesians 3:14-15

Prayer for Strengthened Love

3:14 For this reason ²⁴  I kneel ²⁵  before the Father, ²⁶  3:15 from ²⁷  whom every family ²⁸  in heaven and on the earth is named.

[2:32]  ¹ 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.

[2:32]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:32]  ³ 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).

[2:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “and among the remnant.”

[2:32]  ⁵ tn The participle used in the Hebrew text seems to indicate action in the imminent future.

[3:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “Certainly [or perhaps, “For”] then I will restore to the nations a pure lip.”

[3:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “so that all of them will call on the name of the Lord.”

[3:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “so that [they] will serve him [with] one shoulder.”

[2:21]  ⁹ tn Grk “And it will be that.”

[2:21]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Joel 2:28-32.

[11:26]  ¹¹ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.

[11:26]  ¹² tn Grk “So it happened that” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[11:26]  ¹³ tn Grk “year they”; the referents (Barnabas and Saul) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:26]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “a significant crowd.”

[11:26]  ¹⁵ sn Antioch was a city in Syria (not Antioch in Pisidia). See the note in 11:19.

[11:26]  ¹⁶ sn The term Christians appears only here, in Acts 26:28, and 1 Pet 4:16 in the NT.

[10:13]  ¹⁷ sn A quotation from Joel 2:32.

[10:1]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[10:1]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “on behalf of them”; the referent (Paul’s fellow Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:2]  ²⁰ 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.

[1:2]  ²¹ 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).

[1:2]  ²² tn Or “Grace to you and peace.”

[1:2]  ²³ 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.

[3:14]  ²⁴ sn For this reason resumes the point begun in v. 1, after a long parenthesis.

[3:14]  ²⁵ tn Grk “I bend my knees.”

[3:14]  ²⁶ tc Most Western and Byzantine witnesses, along with a few others (א² D F G Ψ 0278 1881 Ï lat sy), have “of our Lord Jesus Christ” after “Father,” but such an edifying phrase cannot explain the rise of the reading that lacks it, especially when the shorter reading is attested by early and important witnesses such as Ì⁴⁶ א* A B C P 6 33 81 365 1175 1739 co Or Hier.

[3:15]  ²⁷ tn Or “by.”

[3:15]  ²⁸ tn Or “the whole family.”