Acts 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? ¹  Get up, ²  be baptized, and have your sins washed away, ³  calling on his name.’ ⁴ 

biblegateway Act 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptised and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’

biblegateway Act 22:16

‘Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.’

biblegateway Act 22:16

And now, why delay? Get up and be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on the name of the Lord.’

biblegateway Act 22:16

So what are you waiting for? Get up and get yourself baptized, scrubbed clean of those sins and personally acquainted with God.'

SABDAweb Act 22:16

And now, why are you waiting? get up, and have baptism, for the washing away of your sins, giving worship to his name.

bibleoremus Act 22:16

And now why do you delay? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.’

biblegateway Act 22:16

‘And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

biblegateway Act 22:16

And now what are you waiting for? ¹  Get up, ²  be baptized, and have your sins washed away, ³  calling on his name.’ ⁴ 

¹ tn L&N 67.121 has “to extend time unduly, with the implication of lack of decision – ‘to wait, to delay.’ νῦν τί μέλλεις… ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι ‘what are you waiting for? Get up and be baptized’ Ac 22:16.”

² tn Grk “getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.

³ sn The expression have your sins washed away means “have your sins purified” (the washing is figurative).

⁴ sn The expression calling on his name describes the confession of the believer: Acts 2:17-38, esp. v. 38; Rom 10:12-13; 1 Cor 1:2.