Acts 13:39 Cross References

Acts 13:39

39: Everyone who believes in him is freed from all guilt and declared right with God--something the Jewish law could never do.

Romans 8:3

  1. The law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

Galatians 2:16

  1. And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

Romans 10:4

  1. For Christ has accomplished the whole purpose of the law. All who believe in him are made right with God.

Hebrews 7:19

  1. For the law made nothing perfect, and now a better hope has taken its place. And that is how we draw near to God.

Romans 10:10

  1. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.

Romans 8:1

  1. So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:9

  1. And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's judgment.

Romans 4:5

  1. But people are declared righteous because of their faith, not because of their work.
  2. King David spoke of this, describing the happiness of an undeserving sinner who is declared to be righteous:
  3. "Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight.
  4. Yes, what joy for those whose sin is no longer counted against them by the Lord."

Romans 5:20

  1. God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful kindness became more abundant.

Romans 3:19

  1. Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.

Hebrews 10:4

  1. For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Romans 4:15

  1. But the law brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Galatians 3:21

  1. Well then, is there a conflict between God's law and God's promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it.
  2. But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God's promise is to believe in Jesus Christ.
  3. Until faith in Christ was shown to us as the way of becoming right with God, we were guarded by the law. We were kept in protective custody, so to speak, until we could put our faith in the coming Savior.
  4. Let me put it another way. The law was our guardian and teacher to lead us until Christ came. So now, through faith in Christ, we are made right with God.
  5. But now that faith in Christ has come, we no longer need the law as our guardian.

Hebrews 10:11

  1. Under the old covenant, the priest stands before the altar day after day, offering sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Job 9:20

  1. Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.

Job 25:4

  1. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?

John 1:17

  1. For the law was given through Moses; God's unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

Acts 10:43

  1. He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name."

Romans 3:24

  1. Yet now God in his gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins.
  2. For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when he did not punish those who sinned in former times.
  3. And he is entirely fair and just in this present time when he declares sinners to be right in his sight because they believe in Jesus.
  4. Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on our good deeds. It is based on our faith.
  5. So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.

Galatians 3:8

  1. What's more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would accept the Gentiles, too, on the basis of their faith. God promised this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, "All nations will be blessed through you."

Romans 7:9

  1. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.
  2. So the good law, which was supposed to show me the way of life, instead gave me the death penalty.
  3. Sin took advantage of the law and fooled me; it took the good law and used it to make me guilty of death.

Hebrews 9:9

  1. This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them.
  2. For that old system deals only with food and drink and ritual washing--external regulations that are in effect only until their limitations can be corrected.

Romans 5:1

  1. Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

Habakkuk 2:4

  1. "Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked; but the righteous will live by their faith.

Romans 4:24

  1. It was for us, too, assuring us that God will also declare us to be righteous if we believe in God, who brought Jesus our Lord back from the dead.

Isaiah 53:11

  1. When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of what he has experienced, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.

Jeremiah 31:32

  1. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife," says the LORD.

Luke 18:14

  1. I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored."

Luke 10:25

  1. One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: "Teacher, what must I do to receive eternal life?"

John 5:24

  1. "I assure you, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

Galatians 5:3

  1. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey all of the regulations in the whole law of Moses.

1 Corinthians 6:11

  1. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.

Galatians 3:10

  1. But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
  2. Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
  3. How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."

Romans 9:31

  1. But the Jews, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.

Philippians 3:6

  1. And zealous? Yes, in fact, I harshly persecuted the church. And I obeyed the Jewish law so carefully that I was never accused of any fault.
  2. I once thought all these things were so very important, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
  3. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the priceless gain of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I may have Christ
  4. and become one with him. I no longer count on my own goodness or my ability to obey God's law, but I trust Christ to save me. For God's way of making us right with himself depends on faith.

Galatians 2:19

  1. For when I tried to keep the law, I realized I could never earn God's approval. So I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ.

Psalms 143:2

  1. Don't bring your servant to trial! Compared to you, no one is perfect.

Luke 10:28

  1. "Right!" Jesus told him. "Do this and you will live!"

Romans 8:30

  1. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
  2. What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
  3. Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
  4. Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself.
  5. Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.
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