Acts 22:16 - Easy To Read Version Now, don’t wait any longer. Get up, be baptized {\cf2\super [440]} and wash your sins away. Do this, trusting in him (Jesus) \{to save you\}.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 And now, why do you delay? Rise and be baptized, and by calling upon His name, wash away your sins. American Standard Version (1901) And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name. Common English Bible What are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins as you call on his name.’ Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And now why tarriest thou? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, invoking his name. |
God, scrub away my guilt.\par Wash away my sins,\par Make me clean again!\par
“Why are we just sitting here?\par Come, let’s run to the strong cities.\par If the Lord our God is going to make us die,\par then let’s die there.\par We have sinned against the Lord,\par so God gave us poisoned water to drink.\par
And every person who trusts in the Lord will be saved.’\par \i (Joel 2:28-32)\i0 \par
Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, {\cf2\super [42]} 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. {\cf2\super [43]}
Now he (Saul) has come here to Damascus. The leading priests have given him the power to arrest all people that believe in you. {\cf2\super [190]} ”
Immediately, something that looked like fish scales fell off Saul’s eyes. Saul was able to see again! Saul got up and was baptized. {\cf2\super [192]}
To the church of God in Corinth, to those people that have been made holy {\cf2\super [2]} in Christ Jesus. You were called to be God’s holy people. You were called with all the people everywhere that trust in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
Some of us are Jews and some of us are Greeks (non-Jews); some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized {\cf2\super [86]} into one body through one Spirit. {\cf2\super [87]} And we were all given {\cf2\super [88]} the one Spirit.
In the past, some of you were like that. But you were washed clean, you were made holy, {\cf2\super [36]} and you were made right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
He died to make the church holy. {\cf2\super [40]} Christ used the telling of the Good News {\cf2\super [41]} to make the church clean by washing it with water.
I thank God because I hear about the love you have for all God’s holy people {\cf2\super [1]} and the faith you have in the Lord Jesus.
We have been cleansed and made free from feelings of guilt. And our bodies have been washed with pure water. So come near to God with a sincere (true) heart, feeling sure because of our faith.
That water is like baptism {\cf2\super [26]} that now saves you. Baptism is not the washing of dirt from the body. Baptism is asking God for a pure heart. It saves you because Jesus Christ was raised from death.