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Acts 13:37–39

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But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
¶ Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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From verse 37

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    30But God raised him from the dead:

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    24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

From verse 38

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    47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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    12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

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    18And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

    19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

    20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

    21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  4. Acts 5:31Rank 4 from verse 38
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    31Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

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    14In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

From verse 39

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    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

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    4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

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    19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

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    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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    10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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Acts 13:37

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

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raised

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of raise. Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.

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again

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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.

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corruption

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Sense 1: Decay, rottenness, spoilage, defect, ruin, or dissolution. Sense 2: Moral depravity.

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Acts 13:38

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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brethren

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1. Persons of the same people, tribe, community, or shared service who are regarded or addressed as brothers. 2. Persons regarded as brothers by reason of faith or another spiritual relation. 3. Male siblings or other male relatives.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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sins

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Transgressions or offences against God and his law, and the guilt for them.

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Acts 13:39

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believe

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Sense 1: To accept as true on testimony or evidence; to be persuaded. Sense 2: To trust or place confidence in.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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justified

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1. Declared righteous or acquitted. 2. Shown or proved to be right. 3. Comparatively shown to be more righteous.

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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law

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Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

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13:17The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

13:18And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

13:19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

13:20And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

13:21And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

13:22And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

13:23Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

13:24When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

13:25And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

13:26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

13:27For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

13:29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

13:30But God raised him from the dead:

13:31And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

13:32And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

13:33God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

13:34And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

13:35Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

13:36For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

13:37But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

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13:38¶ Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

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13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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13:40Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

13:41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

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