Acts 2:40

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!"

Parallel Translations

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
And with many other words he besought and exhorted them, saying, Saue your selues from this froward generation.

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

Hebrew Names Version
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"

Darby Translation
And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

Easy-to-Read Version
Peter warned them with many other words; he begged them, "Save yourselves from the evil of the people who live now!"

American Standard Version
And with many other words he testified, and exhorted 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."

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."

Complete Jewish Bible
He pressed his case with many other arguments and kept pleading with them, "Save yourselves from this perverse generation!"

International Standard Version
With many more words he continued to testify and to plead with them, saying, "Be saved from this corrupt generation!"

Etheridge Translation
And with many other words he testified to them and entreated of them, saying, Save (yourselves) from this perverse generation.

Murdock Translation
And in many other words he testified to them, and entreated of them, saying: Live ye from this perverse generation.

King James Version (1611)
And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort, saying, Saue your selues from this vntoward generation.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And with many other wordes bare he witnesse, and exhorted them, saying: Saue your selues from this vntowarde generation.

English Revised 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.

Lexham English Bible
And with many other words he solemnly urged and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"

Literal Translation
And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.

New Century Version
Peter warned them with many other words. He begged them, "Save yourselves from the evil of today's people!"

New English Translation
With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves 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."

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

New Life Bible
He said many other things. He helped them understand that they should keep themselves from the sinful people of this day.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, with many different words, bare he frail witness, and went on exhorting them saying - Be saved from this perverse generation!

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

George Lamsa Translation
And he testified to them with many other words and besought them, saying, Save yourselves from this sinful 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!"

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also with othere wordis ful many he witnesside to hem, and monestide hem, and seide, Be ye sauyd fro this schrewid generacioun.

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

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

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And with many other wordes bare he witnes and exhorted them sayinge: Save youre selves from this vntowarde generacion.

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

Bible in Basic English
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil 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!"

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And wt many other wordes bare he witnesse, and exorted them, and sayde: Saue youre selues from this vntowarde generacion.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and with many other discourses did he conjure and exhort them, to save themselves from that depraved 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!"

Simplified Cowboy Version
Then Pete started preachin' and teachin' for a long time. He told everyone, "Save yourselves from getting hung up in this crooked world we live in."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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!"

Contextual Overview

³⁷Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart [with remorse and anxiety], and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what are we to do?" ³⁸And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹"For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is for you and your children and for all who are far away [including the Gentiles], as many as the Lord our God calls to Himself." ⁴⁰And Peter solemnly testified and continued to admonish and urge them with many more words, saying, "Be saved from this crooked and unjust generation!"⁴¹So then, those who accepted his message were baptized; and on that day about 3,000 souls were added [to the body of believers].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: Acts 15:32, Acts 20:2, Acts 20:9, Acts 20:11, Acts 28:23, John 21:25

did: Acts 10:42, Acts 20:21, Acts 20:24, Galatians 5:3, Ephesians 4:17, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Peter 5:12

Save: Numbers 16:28-34, Proverbs 9:6, Luke 21:36, 2 Corinthians 5:20, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Timothy 4:16, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 3:13, James 4:8-10, Revelation 3:17-19, Revelation 18:4, Revelation 18:5

untoward: Matthew 3:7-10, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 16:4, Matthew 17:17, Matthew 23:33, Mark 8:38

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:21 - Separate 1 Samuel 15:6 - depart Nehemiah 13:15 - I testified Jeremiah 7:29 - generation Jeremiah 42:19 - admonished you Jeremiah 51:45 - deliver Ezekiel 3:18 - to save Ezekiel 18:27 - he shall Amos 3:13 - and testify Zechariah 2:7 - Deliver Luke 3:18 - General Luke 9:41 - perverse Luke 12:57 - General 2 Peter 2:18 - that were

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with many other words did he testify and exhort,.... For Luke does not give the sermons of the apostles at length, but a compendium, or specimen of them, and some of the more remarkable things in them; and which, it seems, lay partly in testifying concerning Christ, his person, office, grace, righteousness, and salvation; and against sins and errors, and false doctrine; and in "exhorting" to the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty; or in comforting distressed minds: for the word used signifies to comfort as well as to exhort; though it seems to have the latter sense here, since it follows:

saying, save yourselves from this untoward generation: meaning, the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, and elders of the people, chiefly, who were a perverse generation of men; and upon whom, for their impenitence and unbelief, for their rejection of the Messiah, and their evil treatment of him, wrath and ruin would come upon them, to the uttermost, very quickly; wherefore the apostle exhorts to separate from them, and not partake of their sins, lest they should also of their plagues; but come out from among them, and so, in a temporal sense, save themselves from the destruction that would quickly come on their nation, city, and temple; and so the Arabic version renders it, "escape from this rough generation".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Many other words - This discourse, though one of the longest in the New Testament, is but an outline. It contains, however, the substance of the plan of salvation, and is admirably arranged to attain its object.

Testify - Bear witness to. He bore witness to the promises of Christianity; to the truths pertaining to the danger of sinners; and to the truth respecting the character of that generation.

Exhort - He entreated them by arguments and promises.

Save yourselves - This expression here denotes, preserve yourselves from the influence, opinions, and fate of this generation. It implies that they were to use diligence and effort to deliver themselves. God deals with people as free agents. He calls upon them to put forth their own power and effort to be saved. Unless they put forth their own strength, they will never be saved. When they are saved, they will ascribe to God the praise for having inclined them to seek him, and for the grace whereby they are saved.

This generation - This age or race of people; the Jews then living. They were not to apprehend danger from them from which they were to deliver themselves; but they were to apprehend danger from being with them, united in their plans; designs, and feelings. From the influence of their opinions, etc., they were to escape. That generation was signally corrupt and wicked. See Matthew 23:0; Matthew 12:39; Matthew 16:4; Mark 8:38. They had crucified the Messiah; and they were, for their sins, soon to be destroyed.

Order? this untoward generation? - Untoward: “Perverse, refractory, not easily guided or taught” (Webster). The same character our Saviour had given of that generation in Matthew 11:16-19. This character they had shown uniformly. They were smooth, cunning, plausible; but they were corrupt in principle, and wicked in conduct. The Pharisees had a vast hold on the people. To break away from them was to set at defiance all their power and doctrines; to alienate themselves from their teachers and friends; to brave the authority of those in office, and those who had long claimed the right of teaching and guiding the nation. The chief danger of those who were now awakened was from that generation; that they would deride, or denounce, or persecute them, and induce them to abandon their seriousness, and turn back to their sins. And hence, Peter exhorted them at once to break off from them, and give themselves to Christ. We may hence learn:

(1) That if sinners will be saved they must make an effort. There is no promise to any unless they will exert themselves.

(2) The principal danger which besets those who are awakened arises from their former companions. They are often wicked, cunning, rich, mighty. They may be their kindred, and will seek to drive off their serious impressions by derision, or argument, or persecution. They have a powerful hold on the affections, and they will seek to use it to prevent those who are awakened from becoming Christians.

(3) Those who are awakened should resolve at once to break off from their evil companions, and unite themselves to Christ and his people. There may be no other way in which this can be done than by resolving to forsake altogether the society of those who are infidels, and scoffers, and profane. They should forsake the world, and give themselves up to God, and resolve to have only so much contact with the world, in any respect, as may be required by duty, and as may be consistent with a supreme purpose to live to the honor of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. 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.