:TEXT: "repentance for the forgiveness of sins" : p75 S B syr(p) cop : ASVn NASV NEB RANK: DNOTES: "repentance and the forgiveness of sins" : A C D K L W X Delta Theta Pi Psi f1 f13 28 33 565 700 892 1010 1241 Byz Lect lat vg syr(s,h,pal) : KJV ASV RSV NASVn NIV : Luke uses both expressions: "repentance for forgiveness" in Luke 3:3 and "repentance and forgiveness" in Acts 5:31. The UBS Textual Committee decided that copyists would have been more likely to have changed "for" (literally, "into") to "and" than visa versa, because of the second use of "into" (often translated "to") in the prepositional phrase "to all nations" later on in the verse.