Acts 2:40
New International Version
With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”

New Living Translation
Then Peter continued preaching for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

English Standard Version
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”

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

Berean Literal Bible
And he earnestly testified many other words and was exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation."

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

New King James Version
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

New American Standard Bible
And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on urging them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”

NASB 1995
And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”

NASB 1977
And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation!”

Legacy Standard Bible
And with many other words he solemnly bore witness and kept on exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation!”

Amplified Bible
And Peter solemnly testified and continued to admonish and urge them with many more words, saying, “Be saved from this crooked and unjust generation!”

Christian Standard Bible
With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation! ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt generation!”

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And with many other words he was testifying to them and beseeching them as he said, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”

Contemporary English Version
Peter told them many other things as well. Then he said, "I beg you to save yourselves from what will happen to all these evil people."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Peter said much more to warn them. He urged, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."

Good News Translation
Peter made his appeal to them and with many other words he urged them, saying, "Save yourselves from the punishment coming on this wicked people!"

International Standard Version
Using many different expressions, Peter continued to testify and to plead: "Be saved," he urged them, "from this corrupt generation!"

Literal Standard Version
Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation”;

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

New American Bible
He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”

NET Bible
With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation!"

New Revised Standard Version
And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”

New Heart English Bible
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."

Webster's Bible Translation
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

Weymouth New Testament
And with many more appeals he solemnly warned and entreated them, saying, "Escape from this crooked generation."

World English Bible
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Young's Literal Translation
Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Three Thousand Believe
39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.” 40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.” 41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:5
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Jeremiah 51:45
Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.

Matthew 17:17
"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" Jesus replied. "How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me."

Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.'

Acts 4:36
Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),

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


Treasury of Scripture

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

with.

Acts 15:32
And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

Acts 20:2,9,11
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, …

Acts 28:23
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

did.

Acts 10:42
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.

Acts 20:21,24
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ…

Galatians 5:3
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Save.

Numbers 16:28-34
And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind…

Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

untoward.

Matthew 3:7-10
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? …

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

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Acts 2
1. The apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, and speaking various languages,
12. are admired by some, and derided by others;
14. whom Peter disproves;
37. he baptizes a great number who were converted;
41. who afterwards devoutly and charitably converse together;
43. the apostles working many miracles,
46. and God daily increasing his church.














(40) With many other words.--The report breaks off, as if St. Luke's informant had followed closely up to this point and then lost count of the sequence of thought and words.

Did he testify--i.e., continued to testify.

Save yourselves.--Literally, in the passive, Be ye saved. They were invited to submit to God's way of salvation, to accept Jesus as their Saviour.

From this untoward generation.--Literally, from this crooked generation, as the word is rendered in Luke 3:5; Philippians 2:15.

Verse 40. - He testified, and exhorted for did he testify and exhort, A.V.; crooked for untoward, A.V. Save yourselves, etc. The idea is that the crooked generation which denied and crucified the Lord is hurrying on to their destruction. Those who would not perish with them must come out from amongst them and be separate from them (2 Corinthians 6:19), and seek safely in the ark of Christ's Church (1 Peter 3:21), as Noah did in the ark, and as Lot did in Zoar. So the jailer at Philippi, seeking to be saved, was baptized straightway (Acts 16:30-33). This was the drift and end of all St. Peter's exhortations.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
With
τε (te)
Conjunction
Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.

many
πλείοσιν (pleiosin)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural - Comparative
Strong's 4119: Or neuter pleion, or pleon comparative of polus; more in quantity, number, or quality; also the major portion.

other
Ἑτέροις (Heterois)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2087: (a) of two: another, a second, (b) other, different, (c) one's neighbor. Of uncertain affinity; other or different.

words
λόγοις (logois)
Noun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

he testified,
διεμαρτύρατο (diemartyrato)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1263: To give solemn evidence, testify (declare) solemnly. From dia and martureo; to attest or protest earnestly, or hortatively.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

he urged
παρεκάλει (parekalei)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

them,
αὐτοὺς (autous)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“Be saved
Σώθητε (Sōthēte)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.

from
ἀπὸ (apo)
Preposition
Strong's 575: From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses.

this
ταύτης (tautēs)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

corrupt
σκολιᾶς (skolias)
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4646: Crooked, perverse, unfair, curved, tortuous. From the base of skelos; warped, i.e. Winding; figuratively, perverse.

generation.”
γενεᾶς (geneas)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1074: From genos; a generation; by implication, an age.


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