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

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

"I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill."

For a child has been born to us, a son has been given to us. He shoulders responsibility and is called: Extraordinary Strategist, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it -- they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book. (There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince.

and from Jesus Christ -- the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

A saviour

From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob."

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

But our citizenship is in heaven -- and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

But "when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

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

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

To give

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities."

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying, "So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles."

"Indeed, a time is coming," says the Lord, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

"I will pour out on the kingship of David and the population of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look to me, the one they have pierced. They will lament for him as one laments for an only son, and there will be a bitter cry for him like the bitter cry for a firstborn.

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion; he will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

Forgiveness

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

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

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."

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

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him -- for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you 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 so 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."

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

But God raised him from the dead,