Acts 2:40 And Peter solemnly testified and continued to admonish and urge them with many more words, saying, “ Be saved from this crooked and unjust generation!”

2:40 AMP

逐节对照

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!”
新标点和合本 - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 彼得还用更多别的话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 彼得还用更多别的话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
当代译本 - 然后，彼得还讲了其他许多话警戒、劝勉他们，说：“你们要救自己脱离这邪恶的世代。”
圣经新译本 - 彼得还用许多别的话，郑重作证，并且劝勉他们，说：“你们应当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代！”
中文标准译本 - 彼得还说许多别的话郑重地做见证，又劝告他们说：“你们从这扭曲的世代中得救吧！”
现代标点和合本 - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代！”
和合本（拼音版） - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
New International Version - With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
New International Reader's Version - Peter said many other things to warn them. He begged them, “Save yourselves from these evil people.”
English Standard Version - And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
New Living Translation - Then Peter continued preaching for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
The Message - He went on in this vein for a long time, urging them over and over, “Get out while you can; get out of this sick and stupid culture!”
Christian Standard Bible - With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt 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!”
New King James Version - And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”
American Standard Version - And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
King James Version - And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
New English Translation - With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
World English Bible - With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
新標點和合本 - 彼得還用許多話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 彼得還用更多別的話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 彼得還用更多別的話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
當代譯本 - 然後，彼得還講了其他許多話警戒、勸勉他們，說：「你們要救自己脫離這邪惡的世代。」
聖經新譯本 - 彼得還用許多別的話，鄭重作證，並且勸勉他們，說：“你們應當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代！”
呂振中譯本 - 彼得還用更多別樣的話鄭重地作見證，勸勉他們說：『你們要救自己、脫離這彎曲的世代。』
中文標準譯本 - 彼得還說許多別的話鄭重地做見證，又勸告他們說：「你們從這扭曲的世代中得救吧！」
現代標點和合本 - 彼得還用許多話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代！」
文理和合譯本 - 復以多言證而勸之曰、爾宜自救、脫此邪曲之世也、
文理委辦譯本 - 又以多言勸諭之曰、汝曹宜自救、離此邪世、○
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼得又以多言警而勸之曰、爾當自救、離此邪世、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 伯鐸祿更多方為證、而勸眾曰：『亟宜自拔於此邪惡之世。』
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y con muchas otras razones les exhortaba insistentemente: —¡Sálvense de esta generación perversa!
현대인의 성경 - 이 밖에도 베드로는 많은 말로 증거하며 그들에게 이 타락한 세대에서 구원을 받으라고 권하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - И многими другими словами Петр увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращенного поколения.
Восточный перевод - И многими другими словами Петир увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - И многими другими словами Петир увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - И многими другими словами Петрус увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pierre continuait, avec instance, à leur adresser d’autres paroles pour les persuader, et il les encourageait, leur disant : Recevez le salut, séparez-vous de cette génération dévoyée.
リビングバイブル - このあとも、ペテロの説教はえんえんと続きました。イエスのことや、悪に満ちたこの時代から救われなければならないことを、ことばを尽くして訴えたのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσιν διεμαρτύρατο καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτοὺς λέγων· σώθητε ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς τῆς σκολιᾶς ταύτης.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσιν διεμαρτύρατο, καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτοὺς λέγων, σώθητε ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς τῆς σκολιᾶς ταύτης.
Nova Versão Internacional - Com muitas outras palavras os advertia e insistia com eles: “Salvem-se desta geração corrompida!”
Hoffnung für alle - Petrus sprach noch lange mit ihnen und forderte sie eindringlich auf: »Lasst euch retten vor dem Gericht Gottes, das über diese verdorbene Generation hereinbrechen wird.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Phi-e-rơ tiếp tục giảng dạy, trình bày nhiều bằng chứng rồi khích lệ: “Anh chị em hãy thoát ly thế hệ gian tà này!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เปโตรกล่าวเตือนและวิงวอนพวกเขาอีกหลายคำว่า “จงรักษาตัวท่านให้พ้นจากคนในยุคที่เสื่อมทรามนี้เถิด”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ท่านได้เตือนผู้คนหลายต่อหลายสิ่ง โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งได้เตือนว่า “จงให้ตัวท่านเองรอดพ้นจากคนในช่วงกาลเวลาที่คดโกงนี้เถิด”

交叉引用

Revelation 18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not be a partner in her sins and receive her plagues;
Revelation 18:5 - for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment].
Matthew 12:34 - You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Revelation 3:17 - Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],
Revelation 3:18 - I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become truly rich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.
Revelation 3:19 - Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will].
Proverbs 9:6 - Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live, And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”
Acts 10:42 - He commanded us to preach to the people [both Jew and Gentile], and to solemnly testify that He is the One who has been appointed and ordained by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 15:32 - Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets (divinely inspired spokesmen), encouraged and strengthened the believers with many words.
Acts 20:11 - When Paul had gone back upstairs and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked [informally and confidentially] with them for a long time—until daybreak [in fact]—and then he left.
Acts 20:2 - After he had gone through those districts and had encouraged the believers, he came to Greece.
Acts 20:9 - and there was a young man named Eutychus (“Lucky”) sitting on the window sill. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and as Paul kept on talking longer and longer, he was completely overcome by sleep and fell down from the third story; and he was picked up dead.
Matthew 3:7 - But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the [divine] wrath and judgment to come?
Matthew 3:8 - So produce fruit that is consistent with repentance [demonstrating new behavior that proves a change of heart, and a conscious decision to turn away from sin];
Matthew 3:9 - and do not presume to say to yourselves [as a defense], ‘We have Abraham for our father [so our inheritance assures us of salvation]’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children (descendants) for Abraham.
Matthew 3:10 - And already the axe [of God’s judgment] is swinging toward the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 16:4 - An evil and [morally] unfaithful generation craves a [miraculous] sign; but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of [the prophet] Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
1 Thessalonians 2:11 - For you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you just as a father does [in dealing with] his own children, [guiding you]
Acts 20:24 - But I do not consider my life as something of value or dear to me, so that I may [with joy] finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify faithfully of the good news of God’s [precious, undeserved] grace [which makes us free of the guilt of sin and grants us eternal life].
Acts 20:21 - solemnly [and wholeheartedly] testifying to both Jews and Greeks, urging them to turn in repentance to God and [to have] faith in our Lord Jesus Christ [for salvation].
Luke 21:36 - But keep alert at all times [be attentive and ready], praying that you may have the strength and ability [to be found worthy and] to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man [at His coming].”
1 Timothy 4:16 - Pay close attention to yourself [concentrate on your personal development] and to your teaching; persevere in these things [hold to them], for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
1 Peter 5:12 - By Silvanus, our faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly, to counsel and testify that this is the true grace [the undeserved favor] of God. Stand firm in it!
Galatians 5:3 - Once more I solemnly affirm to every man who receives circumcision [as a supposed requirement of salvation], that he is under obligation and required to keep the whole Law.
Acts 28:23 - When they had set a day for Paul, they came to his lodging in large numbers. And he carefully explained [Christianity] to them from morning until evening, solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the [writings of the] Prophets.
Mark 8:38 - For whoever is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Numbers 16:28 - Then Moses said, “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for I do not act of my own accord.
Numbers 16:29 - If these men die the common death of all mankind or if what happens to everyone happens to them, then [you will know for sure that] the Lord has not sent me.
Numbers 16:30 - But if the Lord creates an entirely new thing, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, along with all that belongs to them, and they descend alive into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), then you will understand that these men have spurned and rejected the Lord!”
Numbers 16:31 - As soon as Moses finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split open;
Numbers 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all the men who supported Korah, with all their possessions.
Numbers 16:33 - So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Numbers 16:34 - All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us also.”
Matthew 23:33 - You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
2 Corinthians 6:17 - So come out from among unbelievers and be separate,” says the Lord, “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will graciously receive you and welcome you [with favor],
John 21:25 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were recorded one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
2 Corinthians 5:20 - So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.
James 4:8 - Come close to God [with a contrite heart] and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; and purify your [unfaithful] hearts, you double-minded [people].
James 4:9 - Be miserable and grieve and weep [over your sin]. Let your [foolish] laughter be turned to mourning and your [reckless] joy to gloom.
James 4:10 - Humble yourselves [with an attitude of repentance and insignificance] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up, He will give you purpose].
Ephesians 4:17 - So this I say, and solemnly affirm together with the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the [unbelieving] Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds [and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls],
Hebrews 3:12 - Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:13 - But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].
Matthew 17:17 - And Jesus answered, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Deuteronomy 32:5 - They (Israel) have acted corruptly toward Him. They are not His children, because of their [moral] defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.
Philippians 2:15 - so that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish in the midst of a [morally] crooked and [spiritually] perverted generation, among whom you are seen as bright lights [beacons shining out clearly] in the world [of darkness],

逐节对照

交叉引用

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!”
新标点和合本 - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 彼得还用更多别的话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 彼得还用更多别的话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
当代译本 - 然后，彼得还讲了其他许多话警戒、劝勉他们，说：“你们要救自己脱离这邪恶的世代。”
圣经新译本 - 彼得还用许多别的话，郑重作证，并且劝勉他们，说：“你们应当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代！”
中文标准译本 - 彼得还说许多别的话郑重地做见证，又劝告他们说：“你们从这扭曲的世代中得救吧！”
现代标点和合本 - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代！”
和合本（拼音版） - 彼得还用许多话作见证，劝勉他们说：“你们当救自己脱离这弯曲的世代。”
New International Version - With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
New International Reader's Version - Peter said many other things to warn them. He begged them, “Save yourselves from these evil people.”
English Standard Version - And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
New Living Translation - Then Peter continued preaching for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
The Message - He went on in this vein for a long time, urging them over and over, “Get out while you can; get out of this sick and stupid culture!”
Christian Standard Bible - With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt 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!”
New King James Version - And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.”
American Standard Version - And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
King James Version - And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
New English Translation - With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
World English Bible - With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
新標點和合本 - 彼得還用許多話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 彼得還用更多別的話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 彼得還用更多別的話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代。」
當代譯本 - 然後，彼得還講了其他許多話警戒、勸勉他們，說：「你們要救自己脫離這邪惡的世代。」
聖經新譯本 - 彼得還用許多別的話，鄭重作證，並且勸勉他們，說：“你們應當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代！”
呂振中譯本 - 彼得還用更多別樣的話鄭重地作見證，勸勉他們說：『你們要救自己、脫離這彎曲的世代。』
中文標準譯本 - 彼得還說許多別的話鄭重地做見證，又勸告他們說：「你們從這扭曲的世代中得救吧！」
現代標點和合本 - 彼得還用許多話作見證，勸勉他們說：「你們當救自己脫離這彎曲的世代！」
文理和合譯本 - 復以多言證而勸之曰、爾宜自救、脫此邪曲之世也、
文理委辦譯本 - 又以多言勸諭之曰、汝曹宜自救、離此邪世、○
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 彼得又以多言警而勸之曰、爾當自救、離此邪世、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 伯鐸祿更多方為證、而勸眾曰：『亟宜自拔於此邪惡之世。』
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y con muchas otras razones les exhortaba insistentemente: —¡Sálvense de esta generación perversa!
현대인의 성경 - 이 밖에도 베드로는 많은 말로 증거하며 그들에게 이 타락한 세대에서 구원을 받으라고 권하였다.
Новый Русский Перевод - И многими другими словами Петр увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращенного поколения.
Восточный перевод - И многими другими словами Петир увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - И многими другими словами Петир увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - И многими другими словами Петрус увещевал их, говоря: – Спасайтесь от этого развращённого поколения.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Pierre continuait, avec instance, à leur adresser d’autres paroles pour les persuader, et il les encourageait, leur disant : Recevez le salut, séparez-vous de cette génération dévoyée.
リビングバイブル - このあとも、ペテロの説教はえんえんと続きました。イエスのことや、悪に満ちたこの時代から救われなければならないことを、ことばを尽くして訴えたのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσιν διεμαρτύρατο καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτοὺς λέγων· σώθητε ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς τῆς σκολιᾶς ταύτης.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσιν διεμαρτύρατο, καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτοὺς λέγων, σώθητε ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς τῆς σκολιᾶς ταύτης.
Nova Versão Internacional - Com muitas outras palavras os advertia e insistia com eles: “Salvem-se desta geração corrompida!”
Hoffnung für alle - Petrus sprach noch lange mit ihnen und forderte sie eindringlich auf: »Lasst euch retten vor dem Gericht Gottes, das über diese verdorbene Generation hereinbrechen wird.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Phi-e-rơ tiếp tục giảng dạy, trình bày nhiều bằng chứng rồi khích lệ: “Anh chị em hãy thoát ly thế hệ gian tà này!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เปโตรกล่าวเตือนและวิงวอนพวกเขาอีกหลายคำว่า “จงรักษาตัวท่านให้พ้นจากคนในยุคที่เสื่อมทรามนี้เถิด”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ท่านได้เตือนผู้คนหลายต่อหลายสิ่ง โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งได้เตือนว่า “จงให้ตัวท่านเองรอดพ้นจากคนในช่วงกาลเวลาที่คดโกงนี้เถิด”

Revelation 18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not be a partner in her sins and receive her plagues;
Revelation 18:5 - for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment].
Matthew 12:34 - You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.
Revelation 3:17 - Because you say, “I am rich, and have prospered and grown wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked [without hope and in great need],
Revelation 3:18 - I counsel you to buy from Me gold that has been heated red hot and refined by fire so that you may become truly rich; and white clothes [representing righteousness] to clothe yourself so that the shame of your nakedness will not be seen; and healing salve to put on your eyes so that you may see.
Revelation 3:19 - Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will].
Proverbs 9:6 - Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live, And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”
Acts 10:42 - He commanded us to preach to the people [both Jew and Gentile], and to solemnly testify that He is the One who has been appointed and ordained by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 15:32 - Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets (divinely inspired spokesmen), encouraged and strengthened the believers with many words.
Acts 20:11 - When Paul had gone back upstairs and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked [informally and confidentially] with them for a long time—until daybreak [in fact]—and then he left.
Acts 20:2 - After he had gone through those districts and had encouraged the believers, he came to Greece.
Acts 20:9 - and there was a young man named Eutychus (“Lucky”) sitting on the window sill. He was sinking into a deep sleep, and as Paul kept on talking longer and longer, he was completely overcome by sleep and fell down from the third story; and he was picked up dead.
Matthew 3:7 - But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the [divine] wrath and judgment to come?
Matthew 3:8 - So produce fruit that is consistent with repentance [demonstrating new behavior that proves a change of heart, and a conscious decision to turn away from sin];
Matthew 3:9 - and do not presume to say to yourselves [as a defense], ‘We have Abraham for our father [so our inheritance assures us of salvation]’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children (descendants) for Abraham.
Matthew 3:10 - And already the axe [of God’s judgment] is swinging toward the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 16:4 - An evil and [morally] unfaithful generation craves a [miraculous] sign; but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of [the prophet] Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
1 Thessalonians 2:11 - For you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you just as a father does [in dealing with] his own children, [guiding you]
Acts 20:24 - But I do not consider my life as something of value or dear to me, so that I may [with joy] finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify faithfully of the good news of God’s [precious, undeserved] grace [which makes us free of the guilt of sin and grants us eternal life].
Acts 20:21 - solemnly [and wholeheartedly] testifying to both Jews and Greeks, urging them to turn in repentance to God and [to have] faith in our Lord Jesus Christ [for salvation].
Luke 21:36 - But keep alert at all times [be attentive and ready], praying that you may have the strength and ability [to be found worthy and] to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man [at His coming].”
1 Timothy 4:16 - Pay close attention to yourself [concentrate on your personal development] and to your teaching; persevere in these things [hold to them], for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
1 Peter 5:12 - By Silvanus, our faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly, to counsel and testify that this is the true grace [the undeserved favor] of God. Stand firm in it!
Galatians 5:3 - Once more I solemnly affirm to every man who receives circumcision [as a supposed requirement of salvation], that he is under obligation and required to keep the whole Law.
Acts 28:23 - When they had set a day for Paul, they came to his lodging in large numbers. And he carefully explained [Christianity] to them from morning until evening, solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the [writings of the] Prophets.
Mark 8:38 - For whoever is ashamed [here and now] of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Numbers 16:28 - Then Moses said, “By this you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; for I do not act of my own accord.
Numbers 16:29 - If these men die the common death of all mankind or if what happens to everyone happens to them, then [you will know for sure that] the Lord has not sent me.
Numbers 16:30 - But if the Lord creates an entirely new thing, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, along with all that belongs to them, and they descend alive into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), then you will understand that these men have spurned and rejected the Lord!”
Numbers 16:31 - As soon as Moses finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split open;
Numbers 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all the men who supported Korah, with all their possessions.
Numbers 16:33 - So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.
Numbers 16:34 - All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us also.”
Matthew 23:33 - You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
2 Corinthians 6:17 - So come out from among unbelievers and be separate,” says the Lord, “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will graciously receive you and welcome you [with favor],
John 21:25 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were recorded one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
2 Corinthians 5:20 - So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us; we [as Christ’s representatives] plead with you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.
James 4:8 - Come close to God [with a contrite heart] and He will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; and purify your [unfaithful] hearts, you double-minded [people].
James 4:9 - Be miserable and grieve and weep [over your sin]. Let your [foolish] laughter be turned to mourning and your [reckless] joy to gloom.
James 4:10 - Humble yourselves [with an attitude of repentance and insignificance] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up, He will give you purpose].
Ephesians 4:17 - So this I say, and solemnly affirm together with the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the [unbelieving] Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds [and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls],
Hebrews 3:12 - Take care, brothers and sisters, that there not be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to trust and rely on the Lord, a heart] that turns away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:13 - But continually encourage one another every day, as long as it is called “Today” [and there is an opportunity], so that none of you will be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [its cleverness, delusive glamour, and sophistication].
Matthew 17:17 - And Jesus answered, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Deuteronomy 32:5 - They (Israel) have acted corruptly toward Him. They are not His children, because of their [moral] defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.
Philippians 2:15 - so that you may prove yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish in the midst of a [morally] crooked and [spiritually] perverted generation, among whom you are seen as bright lights [beacons shining out clearly] in the world [of darkness],