Acts 13:39 Cross References - Mace

³⁹ by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision.

²⁵ Then a doctor of the law stood up to try him, saying, master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

²⁸ you have answered well, replied Jesus, do this, and you shall live.

¹⁴ I tell you this man went home approv'd as just, and not the other. for whoever exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

¹⁷ the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

²⁴ I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

⁴³ he is the person to whom all the prophets give this attestation, that all who believe in him, shall receive remission of sins, by his authority.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.

²⁴ being justified by his unmerited favour through the redemption that is by Jesus Christ: ²⁵ whom God had ordained, thro' faith, to be the propitiatory victim by his blood, for the manifestation of his goodness, by patiently passing over their past transgressions: to manifest, ²⁶ I say, his goodness at this time: that he might appear to be just, and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus. ²⁷ what reason then is there for boasting? it is excluded. what, by the ceremonial law? no: but by the law of faith. ²⁸ for we conclude, that a man is justified by faith, without observing the legal rites. ²⁹ is God the God of the Jews only, and not of the Gentiles? surely he is of the Gentiles too; ³⁰ since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.

⁵ whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness. ⁶ even as David also speaks of the happiness of the man whom God accounted righteous independently of his works, ⁷ " happy are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. ⁸ happy is the man to whom the Lord will not account sin."

¹⁵ because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.

²⁴ but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

¹ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁹ much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.

²⁰ the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.

⁹ then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition: ¹⁰ and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin. ¹¹ for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

¹ Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

³ God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

³⁰ but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies. ³¹ What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us? ³² he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him likewise freely give us all things? ³³ who shall plead against God's elect? shall God who justifieth them? ³⁴ who shall condemn them? shall Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, and makes intercession for us?

³¹ but Israel, who followed the law of justice, hath not attained to the law of justice.

⁴ for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

¹⁰ for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

¹¹ and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

¹⁶ yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

¹⁹ for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

⁸ and the scripture insinuating, that God would justify the Gentiles thro' faith, gave Abraham an intimation of the gospel in these words, " in thee shall all nations be blessed."

¹⁰ but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:" ¹¹ but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, " the just shall live by faith." ¹² now the law does not justify by FAITH, but says, "he that DOES these things shall live by them."

²¹ Is the law then opposite to the promises? by no means. for if there had been a law given, which could have given life, certainly justification should have been by the law. ²² but the scripture has declar'd all guilty of sin, that the blessing promised on condition of faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ²³ but before faith came, we were shut up together as prisoners under the custody of the law, 'till faith was to be revealed. ²⁴ so that the law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵ but now faith being come, we are no longer under a pedagogue.

³ for I testify to every man that is circumcised, that he is under an obligation to perform the whole law.

⁶ if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach; ⁷ these advantages I renounce for Christ, ⁸ nay I think them disadvantages when put in competition with the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whose sake I abandon all these things, and count them as straw, that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,

¹⁹ for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

⁹ This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates ¹⁰ only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

⁴ And indeed it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats, should take away the guilt of sin.

¹¹ While the high priest in his daily administrations frequently repeated the same sacrifices which could by no means expiate sin;