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

The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

A saviour

"It is from among David's descendants that God, in fulfilment of His promise, has raised up a Saviour for Israel, even Jesus.

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to call His name JESUS for He it is who will save His People from their sins."

For a Saviour who is the Anointed Lord is born to you to-day, in the town of David.

We, however, are free citizens of Heaven, and we are waiting with longing expectation for the coming from Heaven of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things.

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.

But be always growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be all glory, both now and to the day of Eternity!

And we have seen and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

to the only God our Saviour--through Jesus Christ our Lord, be ascribed glory, majesty, might, and authority, as it was before all time, is now, and shall be to all the Ages! Amen.

To give

It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness."

This statement of Peter's silenced his opponents. They extolled the goodness of God, and said, "So, then, to the Gentiles also God has given the repentance which leads to Life."

and that proclamation would be made, in His name, of repentance and forgiveness of sins to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

and so all Israel will be saved. As is declared in Scripture, "From Mount Zion a Deliverer will come: He will remove all ungodliness from Jacob;

He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth

Forgiveness

Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,

"Understand therefore, brethren, that through this Jesus forgiveness of sins is announced to you;

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you."

When you forgive a man an offence I also forgive it; for in fact what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has always been for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

It is in Him, and through the shedding of His blood, that we have our deliverance--the forgiveness of our offences--so abundant was God's grace,

in whom we have our redemption--the forgiveness of our sins.

General references

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,

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

And when they are bringing you before synagogues and magistrates and governors, do not anxiously ponder the manner or matter of your defence, nor what you are to say;

and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

"But God raised Him from the dead.