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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General references

John 20:23

Romans 3:28

Hebrews 8:12

Bible References

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I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus,

but a man who instead of 'working' believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, has his faith counted as righteousness.

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;

for with his heart man believes and is justified, with his mouth he confesses and is saved.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

Besides, Scripture anticipated God's justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham in these terms: All nations shall be blessed in thee.

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Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law.

Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

(which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect,

(for the blood of bulls and goats cannot possibly remove sins!).

General references

If you remit the sins of any, they are remitted: if you retain them, they are retained."

We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more.