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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-What Does the Bible Teach? |
Bible Note: Greetings Rowdy! You wrote: "Can you quote me a verse that cites "faith only" does in fact get you salvation?" This is a simple request my friend! :-) Before I begin listing them, I want to make sure that you are aware that the verbal form of 'faith' is 'believe'. So, here goes: 1) Acts 16:31 - "They replied, 'Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.'" 2) John 1:12 - "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—" 3) John 3:15 - "that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." 4) John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." 5) John 3:18 - "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son." 6) John 3:36 - "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him." 7) John 5:24 - "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life." 8) John 6:40 - "For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day." 9) John 6:47 - "I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life." 10) John 11:25 - "Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?'" 11) John 20:31 - " But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." 12) Acts 10:43 - "All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name." 13) Acts 13:39 - "Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses." 14) Rom. 1:16 - "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." 15) Rom. 3:22 - "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference," 16) Rom. 4:24 - "but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead." 17) Rom. 10:4 - "Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. " 18) 1 Cor. 1:21 - "For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe." 19) Eph. 1:13 - "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit," 20) 1 Tim. 1:16 - "But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life." 21) 1 Tim. 4:10 - "(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe." 22) Heb. 4:3a - "Now we who have believed enter that rest,..." 23) Heb. 10:39 - "But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved." 24) 1 John 5:1 - "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. " Here are 24 verses that say that those who 'believe' are saved. Notice the conspicuous absence of any other qualification! ;-) As to your first questiona about the jailer, he was baptized because we are commanded as Christians to be baptized. No one is arguing that we should not be baptized, or that we should not be timely about it. I had the privilege of seeing a young man come to Christ in the dead of winter once. He wanted to be baptized that very night. So, we broke the ice on a member's swimming pool and baptized him that very night. But, he was saved long before he got into that water! Scripture is clear that we are saved by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9)! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |