Acts 22:16

First Nations Version

What are you waiting for? Rise up and participate in the purification ceremony, washing you clean from your broken ways, as you call out to him, trusting in all that his name represents.’

Cross References

Acts 2:38

“Change your thinking,” Stands on the Rock (Peter) instructed them, “and participate in the purification ceremony that is done in the name of Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the Chosen One, representing him and initiating you into his right ways. You will then be healed from your bad hearts, released from your broken ways, and gifted with the Holy Spirit, who will give you the strength to walk the good road with him.

Acts 2:21

Then the ones who cry out to the Great Spirit will be made whole and set free.”’”

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with honest hearts, trusting fully in what the Chosen One has done. For our hearts have been washed clean from guilt and shame and our bodies washed with pure water.

Titus 3:5

He set us free from our bad hearts and broken ways, not because of any good thing we did to deserve this, but because in his love he took pity on us. He set us free by the washing that birthed us into a new life through the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you used to walk in these ways, but no more. You have been washed clean. You have been made holy. You have been given good standing in the eyes of the Great Spirit. All this was done through the name of our Honored Chief Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, and by the Spirit of our Creator.

1 Peter 3:21

The story of what happened then is a way to understand our purification ceremony with water, a ceremony that is performed to set us free and make us whole. This ceremony does not just wash the dirt from our bodies. It shows that from deep inside we are crying out for Creator to set us free by what he did when he raised Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One from the dead.

Galatians 3:27

All of you who participated in the purification ceremony of the Chosen One have put on the regalia of the Chosen One himself.

1 Corinthians 12:13

For through the one Spirit we all participated in the purification ceremony that joined us together into one body. That body is made up of Tribal Members, Wisdom Seekers (Greeks), slaves and free. But none of that matters because we all drink living water from the same Spirit.

Acts 9:14

The head holy men have given him the authority to put in prison all who call upon your name.”

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the members of Creator’s sacred family who gather in Village of Pleasure (Corinth). I write to you, the ones who have been made holy in harmony with the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus), who have been chosen to walk the road of life with him in a sacred manner. I also write this to all people everywhere who call out to and put their trust in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) our Honored Chief and all that his name represents. He is their Honored Chief and ours.

Acts 9:18

Right then something like fish scales fell from his eyes and he could see again! Then he stood up and went to participate in the purification ceremony.

John 13:8

“No!” Stands on the Rock (Peter) lifted his voice, “This can never be!” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) looked deep into his eyes and said, “If you refuse this, then you have no part in who I am.”

Acts 7:59

As they threw the stones at Many Feathers (Stephen), he was sending his voice to the Great Spirit. “Creator Sets Free (Jesus) my Honored Chief,” he called out to Creator. “Welcome my spirit as I come to you!”

Ephesians 5:26

He did this to give them a place of honor and dignity above all others. He washes all with the purifying water of the word he speaks over them.