Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Acts 2:40

Salvation

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Read the whole chapter

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
KJV
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
WEB
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
ASV
And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
DARBY
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
BLB
And he earnestly testified many other words and was exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.”
ÅB
Og med flere andre ord vitnet han og formante dem, idet han sa: La dere frelse fra denne vanartede slekt!
OTB
Med mange andre ord advarte han dem; og han oppfordret dem: «Frels dere fra denne onde generasjonen.»
B1930
Og med flere andre ord vidnet han og formante dem, idet han sa: La eder frelse fra denne vanartede slekt!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Philippians 2:15

    That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

    Read in context

  • Deuteronomy 32:5

    They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

    Read in context

  • 1 Timothy 4:16

    Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

    Read in context

  • 2 Corinthians 6:17

    Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

    Read in context

  • Ephesians 4:17

    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

    Read in context

  • Matthew 17:17

    Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

    Read in context

  • Matthew 23:33

    Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

    Read in context

  • Matthew 16:4

    A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

    Read in context