Bible verse

Acts 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’

Acts 22:16 · BSB

Acts 22:16 in context

The verses around it, from Acts 22.

12 There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the law who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,

13 came and stood beside me. ‘Brother Saul,’ he said, ‘receive your sight.’ And at that moment I could see him.

14 Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.

15 You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.

16 And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’

17 Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

18 and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’

19 ‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

20 And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’

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Acts 22:16 in other translations

KJV

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

ASV

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

ERV

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

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