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Act 2:42

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Now they were persevering in the apostles’ teaching and in the fellowship and in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers.     {Acts 2:38 has been a constant ‘revolving door’ as: ‘^*for,’ ‘into,’ ‘to/toward,’ ‘leading to,’ ‘leading toward,’ ‘to obtain’ have all been used in the MLV and not everyone is ever satisfied. But they only discuss Acts 2:38, not the other four places this same Greek construction is in the Greek Bible. People who are defending Acts 2:38 keep wanting something other than ‘for.’ Which was never the translation in the MLV; see list above. ‘For’ in English can mean ‘because’ but this word is ‘eis’ (G1519). No translation has ever used ‘because’ or ‘because of’ in Acts 2:38, including the ones made by the denominations who want it there (sadly though some had to put it in as a footnote, ironically some of their older translations used ‘leading to/toward’). Thayer used “to obtain.” This misunderstanding is also due to the fact the MLV is the only English translation that corrected all the ‘for’ words by translating them to their more accurate English word(s). Other than ‘for^*,’ all ‘for’ words in the MLV which literally meant ‘because’ are translated as ‘because’.     The second part could possibly be translated ‘you^° will receive the Holy Spirit’s gift.’     We are not sorry that the theologians need to learn the Bible!}