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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: The gift of the Holy Spirit |
Bible Note: Since the neuter gender of the word “perfect” precludes a reference to a person in I Cor. 13:10, it must refer to an inanimate thing. But what thing is it? Instead of searching for some elusive antecedent which is unstated in the immediate context, let us look more closely at the very sentence in which this word is found. For herein lies our answer. Verses 9-10 together comprise one sentence where a contrast occurs between something that is partial (ek merous) now, but will be complete (teleion) later. That something is precisely stated in the words “we know in part, and we prophesy in part” (vs. 9). Paul was discussing the spiritual gifts of knowing and prophesying God’s will- the proclamation of the gospel by divine inspiration!? Jesus had foretold that the Holy Spirit would guide the apostles into “all the truth” (John 16:13). As this was done little by little over the ensuing years, men could see into the mirror of God’s revelation only as “in a mirror, darkly,” but later they would “know fully” all that God intended to reveal and thus see it clearly or “face to face” (vs. 12). By the time the last apostle died (near the end of the first century), the church had passed through its period of infancy and “put away childish things” (vs. 11) When the Scriptures were completed, the church would be sufficiently protected from doctrinal error so that spiritual gifts would no longer be needed (Eph. 4:8-16)A. nd thus they were done away (I Cor. 13:8). During the remaining centuries until the end of time faith, hope and love have continued on (vs. 13) until eternity dawns when faith and hope are swallowed up in sight and fulfillment (2 Cor. 5:7, Rom. 8:24-25). Meanwhile, let us not put our trust in the temporary spiritual gifts of the past, but in the permanent spiritual qualities of the present. |