Acts 2:38-39

Peter's Sermon at Pentecost

³⁸ And Peter said to them, _o "Repent and _p be baptized every one of you _q in the name of Jesus Christ _r for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive _s the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For _t the promise is for you and _u for your children and for all _v who are far off, everyone _w whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

1. Cross References
   Acts 3:19
   Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out.
   Acts 20:21
   Testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
   Acts 26:18
   To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
   Acts 26:20
   But declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.
   Luke 24:47
   And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 22:16
   And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
   Acts 8:12
   But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
   Mark 16:16
   Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
   
3. Cross References
   Acts 10:48
   And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
   Acts 8:16
   For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
   
4. Cross References
   Mark 1:4
   John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
   
5. Cross References
   Acts 10:45
   And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.
   Acts 8:15
   Who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
   Acts 8:20
   But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
   Acts 11:17
   If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?
   John 7:39
   Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
   
6. Cross References
   Romans 9:4
   They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
   
7. Cross References
   Acts 3:25
   You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
   Isaiah 54:13
   All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
   Isaiah 44:3
   For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 22:21
   And he said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'
   Isaiah 57:19
   Creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the Lord, "and I will heal him.
   Ephesians 2:13
   But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
   Ephesians 2:17
   And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
   
9. Cross References
   Joel 2:32
   And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
   Romans 8:30
   And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.