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NASB | Acts 22:16 'Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 22:16 'Now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name [for salvation].' |
Subject: Paul is commanded to wash away sins? |
Bible Note: Q: How could water wash sins if water, which is physical, could only touch man's flesh and not his spirit, that is intangible? A: 1 Pet 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you -- not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good onscience -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Titus 3:5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the WASHING of regeneration AND RENEWING by the Holy Spirit, |