Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’

New American Standard Bible

Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'

A Conservative Version

And now what is it going to be? Having arisen, immerse and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name [for salvation].’

An Understandable Version

So now, what are you waiting for? Get up and be immersed [into Christ], and have your sins washed away as you appeal to His name [i.e., to Christ's authority].'

Anderson New Testament

And now, why do you delay? Arise, and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.

Common New Testament

Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'

Daniel Mace New Testament

why should you now delay? arise, be baptized, and cleansed from your sins, by invoking the name of the Lord.

Darby Translation

And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

And now what art thou about to do having risen, be immersed and wash away thy sins, having called upon the name of the Lord.

King James 2000

And now why do you tarry? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!'

Modern King James verseion

And now what do you intend? Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And now: why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptised, and wash away thy sins, in calling on the name of the Lord.'

Moffatt New Testament

And now, why do you wait? Get up and be baptized and wash away your sins, invoking his name.'

Montgomery New Testament

"'And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling upon his name.'

NET Bible

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.'

New Heart English Bible

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name.'

Noyes New Testament

And now why dost thou delay? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

Sawyer New Testament

And now, why do you delay? Arising, baptize and wash away your sins, calling on his name.

The Emphasized Bible

And, now, what art thou going to do? Arise, and get thyself immersed, and have thy sins bathed away, calling upon his name.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And now why delay? arise, to be baptised, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his Name.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.'

Williams New Testament

And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.'

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

And now why do you delay? Arising, be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.'

Worsley New Testament

And now why shouldst thou delay? Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

Youngs Literal Translation

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

now
νῦν 
Nun 
Usage: 102

why
τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

tarriest thou
μέλλω 
mello 
shall, should, would, to come, will, things to come, not tr,
Usage: 90

ἀνίστημι 
Anistemi 
arise, rise, rise up, rise again, raise up, stand up, raise up again,
Usage: 86

and be baptized
βαπτίζω 
Baptizo 
Usage: 65

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

ἀπολούω 
Apolouo 
Usage: 2

thy
σοῦ 
Sou 
thy, thee, thine, thine own, thou, not tr
Usage: 241

ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

calling on
ἐπικαλέομαι 
Epikaleomai 
Usage: 32

the name
ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name, named, called, surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

References

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Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Paul Tells Of His Conversion On The Damascus Road

15 For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.’ 17 “After I came back to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple complex, I went into a visionary state


Cross References

Acts 2:38

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

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And some of you used to be like this. 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.

Acts 2:21

Then everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Acts 9:14

And he has authority here from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

Romans 6:3-4

Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

1 Corinthians 12:13

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Galatians 3:27

For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ like a garment.

Titus 3:5

He saved us
not by works of righteousness that we had done,
but according to His mercy,
through the washing of regeneration
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 3:21

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 119:60

I hurried, not hesitating
to keep Your commands.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.

Acts 9:18

At once something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized.

Romans 10:12-14

for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call on Him.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To God’s church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord—both their Lord and ours.

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