Acts 22:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Rise and be baptized, and by calling upon His name, wash away your sins.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ What are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins as you call on his name.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And now, why do you delay? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, by invoking his name.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And now why tarriest thou? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.

Acts 22:16 Cross References

Psalm 119:60

I hurry and do not delay to keep your commandments.

Psalm 51:2

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.

John 13:8

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.”

Acts 2:21

Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 7:59

While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who invoke your name.”

Acts 9:18

And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

1 Corinthians 12:13

For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 3:27

As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

Ephesians 5:26

in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,

Titus 3:5

he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,