And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’
Parallel translations
- WEB Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
- KJV And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
- NKJV And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
- NASB Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’
- NLT What are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized. Have your sins washed away by calling on the name of the Lord.’
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Quick answer
Ananias urges Paul to rise, be baptized, wash away his sins, and call on the Lord's name. Paul is summoned to respond openly to the grace he has received.
Overview
Baptism here is the outward sign accompanying the inward washing that comes through faith and calling on Christ (compare Acts 2:38; 1 Peter 3:21). The cleansing of sins is grounded in the Lord's name, not the water itself; baptism signifies and seals what Christ accomplishes. Calling on the name of the Lord is the believer's response of saving faith (Romans 10:13).
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Cross-references · 15
- Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 2:21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
- Heb 10:22let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
- 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Ps 119:60I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
- Gal 3:27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Rom 6:3–4Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
- Acts 9:14And now he is here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”
- Rom 10:12–14For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Acts 9:18At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,
- 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
- Jer 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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