John 1:17

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Summary

John 1:17

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

The law

Grace

General references

Matthew 22:40

Acts 13:24

Bible References

The law

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we know not whence this man is.

This is he that was with the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received the living oracles to give us,

And appointing him a day they came in great numbers to his lodging, to whom he set forth and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening.

But we know that whatever the law says, it says to those having the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God.

For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant,

But if the ministry of death engraved in a writing on stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses on account of the brightness of his face, which passed away,

For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of things to be spoken;

For finding fault with them he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, a new covenant,

Grace

and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.

He has helped Israel his servant, and remembered his mercy,

And that he raised him from the dead never more to return to destruction, he said thus; I will give you the sure promises of David.

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace.

For I say that Christ was made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers,

for all the promises of God, the yes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us.

And almost all things, according to the law, are purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no forgiveness.

for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,

And when he took the book, the four cherubs and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which is the prayers of the saints:

After this I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and having palm branches in their hands;

General references

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

John having preached before his coming the baptism of a change of mind to all the people of Israel.