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Acts 2:40-42
New English Translation
Acts 2:40-42
New English Translation
40 With many other words he testified[a] and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse[b] generation!” 41 So those who accepted[c] his message[d] were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people[e] were added.[f]
The Fellowship of the Early Believers
42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship,[g] to the breaking of bread and to prayer.[h]
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- Acts 2:40 tn Or “warned.”
- Acts 2:40 tn Or “crooked” (in a moral or ethical sense). See Luke 3:5.
- Acts 2:41 tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”
- Acts 2:41 tn Grk “word.”
- Acts 2:41 tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).
- Acts 2:41 tn Or “were won over.”
- Acts 2:42 sn Fellowship refers here to close association involving mutual involvement and relationships.
- Acts 2:42 tn Grk “prayers.” This word was translated as a collective singular in keeping with English style.
Acts 2:40-42
New International Version
Acts 2:40-42
New International Version
40 With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”(A) 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number(B) that day.
The Fellowship of the Believers
42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching(C) and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread(D) and to prayer.(E)
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