Acts 5:31

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Acts 5:31

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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

A saviour

To give

Forgiveness

General references

Acts 13:30

Bible References

A prince

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

"As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill."

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.

They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.

Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

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

A saviour

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

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."

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

But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await 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.

not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and 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 to be 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

God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness."

When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, "Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life."

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

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

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob";

correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Forgiveness

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man 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 "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you."

Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, 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."

And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,

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

But God raised him from the dead,