Acts 8:12

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

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

“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,

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.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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.”

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

“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.

I and the Father are one.”

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.

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

For there are three who testify:

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

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.”

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

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

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

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

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.’

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“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.

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

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

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

As 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?”

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

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

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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.”

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

Many more believed because of his word.

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

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 sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

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

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

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.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

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

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.