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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Subject: Baptism, Trinity, and Teachers? |
Bible Note: If you believe the Word and Jesus' teachings on the subject, baptism is not optional. It is a command to be obeyed and an act of faith to prove that you truly believe. Consider the following from Paul to the Thessilonians 2 Th 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 2 Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 2 Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; Peter talked about it too: 1 Pet 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? In short, Jesus made a way but to get there we must obey and do it God's way. Remember Prov 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. I have grown to understand that in order to see the whole thought or doctrine of God on a topic one must study that thought throughout the pages of Scripture. Once you find everything on the topic and correct your thoughts to remove what you may think are contradictions, you will arrive at the truth. Consider this: Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. |