Acts 2:38

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Then God will forgive your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Cross References

Acts 22:16

Now, don’t wait any longer. Get up, be baptized and wash away your sins, trusting in Jesus to save you.’

Mark 16:16

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. But those who do not believe will be judged guilty.

Acts 8:12

But Philip told the people the Good News about God’s kingdom and the power of Jesus Christ. Men and women believed Philip and were baptized.

Luke 24:47

You saw these things happen—you are witnesses. You must go and tell people that they must change and turn to God, which will bring them his forgiveness. You must start from Jerusalem and tell this message in my name to the people of all nations.

1 Peter 3:21

And that water is like baptism, which now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. It is asking God for a clean conscience. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

Acts 10:48

So Peter told them to baptize Cornelius and his relatives and friends in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.

Romans 6:3

Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death.

Matthew 4:17

From that time Jesus began to tell people his message: “Change your hearts and lives, because God’s kingdom is now very near.”

Matthew 3:2

John said, “Change your hearts and lives, because God’s kingdom is now very near.”

Acts 17:30

In the past people did not understand God, and he overlooked this. But now he is telling everyone in the world to change and turn to him.

Acts 20:21

I told everyone—Jewish and non-Jewish people—to change and turn to God. I told them all to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Acts 26:20

I began telling people to change their hearts and lives and turn back to God. And I told them to do what would show that they had really changed. I went first to people in Damascus. Then I went to Jerusalem and to every part of Judea and told the people there. I also went to the non-Jewish people.

Matthew 28:19

So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Acts 26:18

You will make them able to understand the truth. They will turn away from darkness to the light. They will turn away from the power of Satan, and they will turn to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can be given a place among God’s people—those who have been made holy by believing in me.’”

Titus 3:5

He saved us because of his mercy, not because of any good things we did. He saved us through the washing that made us new people. He saved us by making us new through the Holy Spirit.

Mark 1:15

He said, “The right time is now here. God’s kingdom is very near. Change your hearts and lives, and believe the Good News!”

Acts 16:15

She and all the people living in her house were baptized. Then she invited us into her home. She said, “If you think I am a true believer in the Lord Jesus, come stay in my house.” She persuaded us to stay with her.

Acts 8:20

Peter said to Simon, “You and your money should both be destroyed because you thought you could buy God’s gift with money.

Acts 5:31

Jesus is the one God honored by giving him a place at his right side. He made him our Leader and Savior. God did this to give all the people of Israel the opportunity to change and turn to God to have their sins forgiven.

Zechariah 12:10

I will fill David’s family and the people living in Jerusalem with a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look to me, the one they stabbed, and they will be very sad. They will be as sad as someone crying over the death of their only son, as sad as someone crying over the death of their firstborn son.

Isaiah 59:21

The Lord says, “As for me, this is the agreement that I will make with these people. I promise my Spirit that I put on you and my words that I put in your mouth will never leave you. They will be with you and your children and your children’s children, for now and forever.

Isaiah 32:15

This will continue until God gives us his Spirit from above. Then the desert will become rich farmland and the farmland will be like thick forests.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will pour out my Spirit on the family of Israel, and I will never turn away from my people again.” This is what the Lord GOD said.

Isaiah 59:20

Then a redeemer will come to Zion to save the people of Jacob who have turned away from sin.

Matthew 3:6

They confessed the bad things they had done, and John baptized them in the Jordan.

Luke 3:10

The people asked John, “What should we do?”

Acts 10:43

Everyone who believes in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name. All the prophets agree that this is true.”

Acts 13:38

Brothers, understand what we are telling you. You can have forgiveness of your sins through this Jesus. The Law of Moses could not free you from your sins. But you can be made right with God if you believe in Jesus.

Ephesians 1:7

In Christ we are made free by his blood sacrifice. We have forgiveness of sins because of God’s rich grace.