Acts 2:40

2:40 With many other words he testified ¹  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ²  generation!”

Acts 11:23

11:23 When ³  he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true ⁴  to the Lord with devoted hearts, ⁵ 

[2:40]  ¹ tn Or “warned.”

[2:40]  ² tn Or “crooked” (in a moral or ethical sense). See Luke 3:5.

[11:23]  ³ tn Grk “Antioch, who when.” The relative pronoun was omitted and a new sentence was begun in the translation at this point to improve the English style, due to the length of the sentence in Greek.

[11:23]  ⁴ tn BDAG 883 s.v. προσμένω 1.a.β has “remain true to the Lord” for προσμένειν (prosmenein) in this verse.

[11:23]  ⁵ tn Grk “with purpose of heart”; BDAG 869 s.v. πρόθεσις 2.a translates this phrase “purpose of heart, i.e. devotion” here.