Acts 15:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.”
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“He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 15:9 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Acts 10:15The voice spoke to him a second time: “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
- Acts 10:28He said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or visit him. But God has shown me that I should not call any man impure or unclean.
- Acts 10:34Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
- Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
- Acts 11:12The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s home.
- Acts 14:1At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
- Acts 14:27When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
- Romans 3:9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
- Romans 3:22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
- Romans 3:29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,
- Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
- Romans 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
- Romans 10:11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
- 1 Corinthians 7:18Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
- Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Ephesians 2:14For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
- Ephesians 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
- Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
- 1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
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