Acts 2:38

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

For 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:

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

“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,

This 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,

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“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.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

won’t service of the Spirit be with much more glory?

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

but 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.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.

to 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.’

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

“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 now on and forever.”

I 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.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

who, when they had come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit;

When 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.

not 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,

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

They went out and preached that people should repent.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he received his sight. He arose and was baptized.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,