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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: To be saved must we be baptised? |
Bible Note: Tim, You keep trying but you aren't making your case. When comparing 1 Corinthians 16:1,2, you carefully show that the verbs and pronouns are all singular, but why do you fail to mention the genetive plural pronoun, humon? Because you don't fail to mention that the same identical genetive plural pronoun exist in Acts 2:38. You carefully point it out in Acts 2:38, but you omit it from the list of verbs and pronouns in 1 Corinthians 16:2. Why is that? Does it not help your case? Next, you have stated an error in saying: "If Acts 2:38 followed the pattern of Acts 2:3, all of the above plural verbs and pronouns would have been singular!" Acts 2:3 has plural pronoun (autois) following the singular verb and HEKASTOS (each one). Perhaps you just missed that one. So all of the pronouns in Acts 2:38 DON'T have to be singular! to follow the construction of Acts 2:3. Secondly, the plural pronoun in Acts 2:38 in "the sins of YE" matches the plural pronoun in the phrase "be baptized each one of YE". The inspired writer makes the connection between baptism and forgiveness and every Bible translation accurately renders it so. You have made it very clear that Acts 2:38 should be understood to say "repent for the remission of sins" while disassociating baptism from the process. If you say that is the accurate grammatical rendering, then why isn't their one verse to back you up? Repentance and Baptism are necessary for receiving the promises stated at the end of the verse. Disciplerami |