Acts 5:31

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

A prince

Acts 3:15

Revelation 1:5

A saviour

To give

2 Timothy 2:25

Forgiveness

General references

Acts 13:30

Bible References

A prince

but killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,

A saviour

From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

And she will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

For to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

But our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

to Titus, my true child in a common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

and not to steal, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in everything they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

To give

For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "So then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance unto life."

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God will grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,

Forgiveness

Repent therefore, and turn again, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"he said to the paralytic,

so that 'seeing they may see but not perceive, and hearing may hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.'"

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I also send you."

Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

General references

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"he said to the paralytic,

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Now when they bring you before the synagogues and rulers and authorities, do not worry about how or what you should answer, or what you are to say;

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

But God raised him from the dead;