Acts 13:39

By Jesus everyone who believes is justified from everything the law of Moses could not justify. Faith in Christ brings the righteousness the law could not give.

Cross-references · 39

• Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Rom 4:5–8But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
• Rom 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
• Gal 3:21–25Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Heb 10:11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Heb 10:4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
• Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
• Phil 3:6–9concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
• Rom 3:24–30being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
• Rom 7:9–11I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Rom 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Heb 9:9–10which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
• Gal 3:8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Gal 3:10–12For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Gal 5:3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Rom 8:30–34Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• Luke 10:28He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
• Isa 53:11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
• Jer 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
• Hab 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Luke 10:25Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

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