Acts 2:40 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:40

With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

BSB

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ASV

And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.

KJV

And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Save yourselves from this untoward generation - Separate yourselves from them: be ye saved, σωθητε: the power is present with you; make a proper use of it, and ye shall be delivered from their obstinate unbelief, and the punishment that awaits it in the destruction of them and their city by the Romans.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἑτέροις	heterois	in other	G2087 →
τε	te	And	G5037 →
λόγοις	logois	words	G3056 →
πλείοσιν	pleiosin	many	G4119 →
διεμαρτύρατο	diemarturato	he earnestly testified	G1263 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
παρεκάλει	parekalei	was exhorting	G3870 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
σώθητε	sōthēte	do be saved	G4982 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
γενεᾶς	geneas	generation	G1074 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
σκολιᾶς	skolias	perverse	G4646 →
ταύτης.	tautēs	this.	G3778 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 6:17
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
leads to
- Isaiah 52:11
  Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
- Revelation 18:4
  Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
  Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Psalms 1:1–3
  Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
- Numbers 16:26
  And he warned the congregation, “Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”
Through
Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
leads to
- Matthew 5:14–16
  You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
Through
Ephesians 4:17
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
leads to
- Romans 1:21
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Through
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
leads to
- Titus 1:9
  He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.