But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.”
Parallel translations
- WEB But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
- KJV But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
- BSB On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
- NASB But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they also are.”
- NLT We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus.”
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Quick answer
Peter affirms that Jews and Gentiles alike are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus. Salvation for everyone is by grace through Christ, not by law.
Overview
Strikingly, Peter says even Jewish believers are saved 'just as' Gentiles are, through grace, not the law. This levels all people at the foot of the cross and refutes any salvation-by-works scheme. It is one of Acts' clearest statements of the gospel: rescue comes through the undeserved favor of the Lord Jesus.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rom 3:24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
- Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
- Eph 2:5–9even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
- Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- 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.
- 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 Cor 16:23The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
- Rom 5:15But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
- Eph 1:6–7to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- Gal 1:6I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
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