Acts 15:9

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Summary

Acts 15:9

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

Put

Purifying

General references

Acts 10:47

Bible References

Put

And it fortuned in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

What say we then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have already proved how that both Jews and gentiles are all under sin,

And he received the sign of circumcision, as a seal of the righteousness which is by faith: which faith he had, yet being uncircumcised, that he should be the father of all them that believe: though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also;

that is to say, us which he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the gentiles.

For the scripture saith, "Whosoever believeth on him, shall not be ashamed."

If any man be called being circumcised, let him add nothing thereto. If any be called uncircumcised: let him not be circumcised.

Now is there no Jew, neither gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither man nor woman: but ye are all one thing in Christ Jesus.

For in Jesus Christ, neither is circumcision anything worth, neither yet uncircumcision: but faith, which by love is mighty in operation.

For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken down the wall in the midst, that was a stop between us,

That the gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise that is in Christ, by the means of the gospel,

Where is neither gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarous or Scythian, bond or free: But Christ is all in all things.

Purifying

And the voice spake unto him again the second time, "What God hath cleansed that make thou not common."

Unto the congregation of God which is at Corinth. To them that are sanctified in Jesus Christ, saints by calling, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both of theirs and of ours.

For if the blood of oxen, and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer, when it was sprinkled, purified the unclean, as touching the purifying of the flesh:

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

General references

"Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptised, which have received the holy ghost as well as we?"