Acts 2:40
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!"

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

with.

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

Acts 20:2,9,11 And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece: . . .

Acts 28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening.

John 21:25 But there are also many other things which Jesus did which, if they were written every one, the world itself. I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.

did.

Acts 10:42 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that it is he who was appointed by God to be judge of the living and of the dead.

Acts 20:21,24 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

Galatians 5:3 And I testify again to every man circumcising himself that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Ephesians 4:17 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:

1 Thessalonians 2:11 As you know in what manner, entreating and comforting you (as a father doth his children),

1 Peter 5:12 By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, wherein you stand.

Save.

Numbers 16:28-34 And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head: . . .

Proverbs 9:6 He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

Hebrews 3:12,13 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God. . . .

James 4:8-10 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. . . .

Revelation 3:17-19 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. . . .

Revelation 18:4,5 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. . . .

untoward.

Matthew 3:7-10 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come? . . .

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

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Matthew 23:33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

Mark 8:38 For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Context
Three Thousand Believe
39For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call. 40And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. 41They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:5
They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Jeremiah 51:45
Go out of the midst of her, my people: that every man may save his life from the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Matthew 17:17
And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Luke 16:28
That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.

Acts 4:36
And Joseph, who, by the apostles, was surnamed Barnabas (which is, by interpretation, The son of consolation), a Levite, a Cyprian born,

Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Acts 2:39
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