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

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I tell you this man went home approv'd as just, and not the other. for whoever exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ:

whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

and the scripture insinuating, that God would justify the Gentiles thro' faith, gave Abraham an intimation of the gospel in these words, " in thee shall all nations be blessed."

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Then a doctor of the law stood up to try him, saying, master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.

because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.

then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

but Israel, who followed the law of justice, hath not attained to the law of justice.

for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:"

for I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to perform the whole law.

if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates

And indeed it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats, should take away the guilt of sin.

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whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye leave unpardoned, they are lest unpardoned."

for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites.

for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sins and their trangressions will I remember no more."