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

Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one -- we have not known whence he is.'

'And God speaketh all these words, saying,

And this is the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;

And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, 'Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.

A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless,

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

and Moses indeed was stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

For finding fault, He saith to them, 'Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

Grace

and the truth shall make you free.'

Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,

An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

And now apart from law hath the righteousness of God been manifested, testified to by the law and the prophets,

that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

and these all, having been testified to through the faith, did not receive the promise,

And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

General references

on these -- the two commands -- all the law and the prophets do hang.'

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;