Acts 2:38

Peter calls them to repent and be baptized in Jesus' name for forgiveness, with the promise of the Spirit. It sets out the response to the gospel.

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• Acts 22:16Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Acts 8:12But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
• Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• Acts 10:48He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
• Acts 3:19“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Acts 10:44–45While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.
• Rom 6:3Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
• Acts 8:15–17who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;
• Acts 8:36–38As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
• Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Matt 4:17From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
• Ezek 36:25–27I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Acts 19:4–5Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
• Acts 20:21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.
• Acts 2:16–18But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
• Titus 3:5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 26:20but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
• Isa 44:3–4For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
• Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
• Mark 1:15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
• Matt 3:8–9Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Acts 8:20But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
• Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• Matt 21:28–32But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Acts 16:31–34They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
• Zech 12:10I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
• 1 Cor 1:13–17Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
• Joel 2:28–29“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
• Isa 32:15Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
• Ezek 39:29neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Luke 15:1–32Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.
• Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

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