Acts 13:39

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“Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.”

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“Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 13:39 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
  2. Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
  3. Psalms 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
  4. Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
  5. Jeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
  6. Habakkuk 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright— but the righteous will live by faith—
  7. Luke 10:25One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
  8. Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
  9. Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
  10. John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
  11. John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  12. Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
  13. Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  14. Romans 3:24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
  15. Romans 4:5However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
  16. Romans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
  17. Romans 4:24but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
  18. Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  19. Romans 5:9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
  20. Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
  21. Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
  22. Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  23. Romans 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
  24. Romans 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

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