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 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
• Rom 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,
• Rom 10:10For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.
• Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 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.
• Rom 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
• Rom 4:5–8However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• Rom 5:9Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!
• Gal 3:21–25Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Heb 10:11Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
• Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Heb 10:4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
• Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
• Phil 3:6–9as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Rom 5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Rom 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.
• Rom 3:24–30and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
• Rom 7:9–11Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
• 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.
• Rom 9:31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
• 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
• 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.”
• Heb 9:9–10It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
• Gal 3:8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
• Gal 3:10–12All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• Gal 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Gal 5:3Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
• Rom 8:30–34And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.
• Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
• Isa 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.
• Jer 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.
• Hab 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
• 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?”

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