Acts 13:39

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Acts 13:37–41 · Berean Standard Bible

37 But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

39 Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

40 Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

41 ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

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Isaiah 53:11

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Habakkuk 2:4

Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright — but the righteous will live by faith —

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

Romans 3:24

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:25

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Romans 3:26

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 3:27

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

Romans 3:28

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 3:29

Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

Romans 3:30

since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

Romans 4:5

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 4:6

And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Romans 4:7

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Romans 4:8

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

Romans 4:24

but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:9

Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:3

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

Romans 8:30

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Romans 8:31

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Romans 8:33

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Romans 8:34

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

Romans 10:10

For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Galatians 2:16

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Galatians 3:8

The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Job 9:20

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

Job 25:4

How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalms 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

Luke 10:25

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 10:28

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Romans 4:15

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 5:20

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Romans 7:9

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Romans 7:10

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

Romans 9:31

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Galatians 3:11

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Galatians 3:12

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Galatians 3:21

Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.

Galatians 3:23

Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.

Galatians 3:24

So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:25

Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

Galatians 5:3

Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 9:9

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 9:10

They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.

Hebrews 10:4

because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:11

Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.