Acts 13:39

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Acts 13:39

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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John 20:23

Romans 3:28

Hebrews 8:12

Bible References

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I tell you, it was he who went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted."

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

For with their minds men believe and are made upright, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment and are saved.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

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Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.

For the Law only brings down God's wrath; where there is no law, there is no violation of it.

Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,

I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

For there is a curse upon all who rely on obedience to the Law, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who does not stand by everything that is written in the Book of the Law and obey it."

I insist again to any man who lets himself be circumcised, that he is under obligation to obey the whole Law.

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

(for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God.

And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God,

for bulls' and goats' blood is powerless to remove sin.

General references

"Receive the holy Spirit! If you forgive any men's sins, they are forgiven them, and if you fix any men's sins upon them, they will remain fixed."

For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.

For I will be merciful to their misdeeds, And I will no longer remember their sins.' "