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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.
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