Acts 5:31

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Acts 5:31

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Summary

Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

A prince

A saviour

To give

Forgiveness

General references

Acts 13:30

Bible References

A prince

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

"Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion."

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince."

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;

A saviour

From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins."

For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

To give

God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"

Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Forgiveness

"Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --

that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

General references

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

But God raised him from the dead,