Acts 15:9

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Summary

Acts 15:9

And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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Purifying

General references

Acts 10:47

Bible References

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At Iconium in the same way, they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

including us whom he has called not only from among the Jews but from among the heathen?

For the Scripture says, "No one who has faith in him will be disappointed."

If a man was circumcised when he was called, he must not try to alter it. If a man was uncircumcised when he was called, he must not have himself circumcised.

There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

For in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the want of it counts for anything, but only faith acting through love.

For he is himself our peace. He has united the two divisions, and broken down the barrier that kept us apart,

that through union with Christ Jesus the heathen are fellow-heirs with the Jews, belong to the same body and share the promise with them, through the good news

Here, what matters is not "Greek" and "Jew," the circumcised and the uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeborn, but Christ is everything and in us all.

Purifying

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically,

Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily,

General references

"Can anyone refuse the use of water to baptize these people when they have received the holy Spirit just as we did?"