Mt 12:31 Why I say to you, All manner of sin and
blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven to men. 32
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall
be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost,
it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither
in the world to come.
Heb 6:4 For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have
tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the
Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and
the powers of the world to come, 6 If they shall fall
away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify
to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame. 7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that
comes oft on it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by
whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God: 8 But
that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is near
to cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we
are persuaded better things of you, and things that
accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
10:26 For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for
sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two
or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden
under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the
covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
has done despite to the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know
him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will
recompense, said the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge
his people. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God.
1 Joh 5:16 If any man
see his brother sin a sin which is not to death, he shall
ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not to
death. There is a sin to death: I do not say that he shall
pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is
a sin not to death. 18 We know that whoever is born of
God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself,
and that wicked one touches him not. 19 And we know that
we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.
Being in Grace
Rom 5:1 Therefore being
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion
over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the
law, but under grace? God forbid.
8:11 But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in
you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.
2 Cor 4:15 For all things are for your sakes,
that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of
many redound to the glory of God.
Php 1:7 Even
as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I
have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in
the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are
partakers of my grace.
1 Pe 1:10 Of which
salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come to
you:
2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you
should show forth the praises of him who has called you out
of darkness into his marvelous light; 10 Which in time
past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
5:12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I
have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is
the true grace of God wherein you stand.
1 Ch
16:34 O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good; for his
mercy endures for ever.
Ps 32:10 Many sorrows shall
be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy
shall compass him about.
36:5 Your mercy, O LORD, is
in the heavens; and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
10 O continue your loving kindness to them that know you;
and your righteousness to the upright in heart.
37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he
delights in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be
utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of
God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune
with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. 7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no
more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? does his
promise fail for ever more? 9 Has God forgotten to be
gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgives all your
iniquities; who heals all your diseases; 4 Who redeems
your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving
kindness and tender mercies;
103:8 The LORD is
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in
mercy. 9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep
his anger for ever. 10 He has not dealt with us after our
sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 11 For
as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from
the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pities his children, so the LORD pities
them that fear him. 14 For he knows our frame; he
remembers that we are dust. 17 But the mercy of the LORD
is from everlasting to everlasting on them that fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children;
118:1 O
give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy
endures for ever. 2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy
endures for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that
his mercy endures for ever. 4 Let them now that fear the
LORD say, that his mercy endures for ever.
119:76
Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort,
according to your word to your servant.
136:1 O give
thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures
for ever. 2 O give thanks to the God of gods: for his
mercy endures for ever. 3 O give thanks to the Lord of
lords: for his mercy endures for ever. 4 To him who alone
does great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever. 5 To
him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endures
for ever.
Pr 24:16 For a just man falls seven
times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into
mischief.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall
depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not
depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be
removed, said the LORD that has mercy on you.
Testing Yourself
1 Cor 2:10 But God has
revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches
all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man
knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is
in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the
Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of
the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might
know the things that are freely given to us of God.
10:11 Now all these things happened to them for ensamples:
and they are written for our admonition, on whom the ends of
the world are come. 12 Why let him that thinks he stands
take heed lest he fall.
11:27 Why whoever shall eat
this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But
let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread,
and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eats and drinks
unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this cause many are
weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we
would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But
when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we
should not be condemned with the world.
2 Cor
13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove
your own selves. Know you not your own selves, how that
Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates? 6 But I
trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates. 7
Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should
appear approved, but that you should do that which is
honest, though we be as reprobates.
Gal 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is
nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let every man prove
his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself
alone, and not in another. 5 For every man shall bear his
own burden.
Rev 3:1 And to the angel of the
church in Sardis write; These things said he that has the
seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your
works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead.
1 Sam 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were
come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD’s
anointed is before him. 7 But the LORD said to Samuel,
Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his
stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD sees not
as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but
the LORD looks on the heart.
Ps 119:59 I
thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and
know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way
in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Pr
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
and he ponders all his goings.
14:12 There is a way
which seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death.
16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his
own eyes; but the LORD weighs the spirits.
20:5
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of
understanding will draw it out. 6 Most men will proclaim
every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but
the LORD ponders the hearts.
Jer 17:9 The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try
the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doings.
Lam 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the
heavens.
The Law Shows Sin
Rom 3:19 Now we know that
what things soever the law said, it said to them who are
under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the
world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the
deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his
sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
4:15
Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is
no transgression.
5:20 Moreover the law entered, that
the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound:
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the
law sin? God forbid. No, I had not known sin, but by the
law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You
shall not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the
commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For
without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without
the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived,
and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to
life, I found to be to death. 11 For sin, taking occasion
by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12
Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and
good. 13 Was then that which is good made death to me?
God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death
in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment
might become exceeding sinful.
Gal 3:10 For as
many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for
it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all
things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of
God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them
shall live in them. 13 Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:
3:19 Why then serves the law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand
of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of
one, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law
given which could have given life, truly righteousness
should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture has
concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before
faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith
which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Why the law was
our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we
are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For you are all
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
1
Tim 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use
it lawfully; 9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for
a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for
the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
murderers, 10 For fornicators, for them that defile
themselves with mankind, for enslavers, for liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is
contrary to sound doctrine; 11 According to the glorious
gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For
he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not
kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you
are become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak you,
and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of
liberty.
1 Joh 3:4 Whoever commits sin
transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of
the law.
Assurance of Salvation
Lu 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are
subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are
written in heaven.
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and
having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the
church daily such as should be saved.
Rom 4:6
Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to
whom God imputes righteousness without works, 7 Saying,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose
sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
will not impute sin.
5:1 Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through him.
8:15 For you
have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but
you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God:
8:38 For I
am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Cor 10:7
Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any
man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself
think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we
Christ’s.
13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in
the faith; prove your own selves. Know you not your own
selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be
reprobates?
Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 Even
when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace you are saved;) 8 For by grace are you
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God:
3:12 In whom we have boldness and access
with confidence by the faith of him.
4:32 And be you
kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he
which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the
day of Jesus Christ:
4:3 And I entreat you also, true
yoke fellow, help those women which labored with me in the
gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow
laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
Col
1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us meet to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has
translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In
whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins:
2:13 And you, being dead in your
sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he quickened
together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another,
if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ
forgave you, so also do you.
1 Th 1:4 Knowing,
brothers beloved, your election of God. 5 For our gospel
came not to you in word only, but also in power, and in the
Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as you know what manner
of men we were among you for your sake.
2 Tim
1:9 Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own purpose
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
world began,
1:12 For the which cause I also suffer
these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom
I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep
that which I have committed to him against that day.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,
living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior
toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost;
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I
will make with them after those days, said the Lord, I will
put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I
write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. 19 Having therefore,
brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he has
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of
God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of
truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his
creatures.
1 Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his
abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1:23
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and stays for
ever.
1 Joh 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
2:12 I write to you, little
children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s
sake.
3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has
bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God:
therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall
appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God
is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has
testified of his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of
God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has
made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God
gave of his Son.
5:11 And this is the record, that
God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. 12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not
the Son of God has not life. 13 These things have I
written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God;
that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you
may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Jude
1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of
the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you,
and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered to the saints.
Job
19:25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall
stand at the latter day on the earth: 26 And though after
my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see
God:
Ps 32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man
to whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit
there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed
old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and
night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into
the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledge my sin to
you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess
my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity
of my sin. Selah. 6 For this shall every one that is
godly pray to you in a time when you may be found: surely in
the floods of great waters they shall not come near to him.
7 You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from
trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of
deliverance. Selah.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against
me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.
85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you
have covered all their sin. Selah.
103:3 Who forgives
all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
103:8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy. 9 He will not always chide: neither
will he keep his anger for ever. 10 He has not dealt with
us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our
iniquities. 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As
far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our
transgressions from us. 13 Like as a father pities his
children, so the LORD pities them that fear him. 14 For
he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
130:3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who
shall stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with you, that
you may be feared.
Pr 14:32 The wicked is
driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in
his death.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us
reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.
38:17 Behold,
for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have
cast all my sins behind your back.
43:24 You have
bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled
me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to
serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your
iniquities. 25 I, even I, am he that blots out your
transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your
sins.
53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our
peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Dan 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and
forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
Mic 7:18 Who is a God like to you, that pardons
iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of
his heritage? he retains not his anger for ever, because he
delights in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have
compassion on us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you
will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Confession of Sins
Mt 3:5 Then went out to
him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round
about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan,
confessing their sins.
Lu 15:18 I will arise and go
to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned
against heaven, and before you, 19 And am no more worthy
to be called your son: make me as one of your hired
servants. 20 And he arose, and came to his father. But
when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had
compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
21 And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against
heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be
called your son.
18:13 And the publican, standing
afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven,
but smote on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a
sinner.
2 Cor 7:10 For godly sorrow works repentance
to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the
world works death.
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one
to another, and pray one for another, that you may be
healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
avails much.
1 Joh 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
Lev 5:4 Or if a soul swear,
pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good,
whatever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and
it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be
guilty in one of these. 5 And it shall be, when he shall
be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that
he has sinned in that thing: 6 And he shall bring his
trespass offering to the LORD for his sin which he has
sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the
goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an
atonement for him concerning his sin.
16:20 And when
he has made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the
tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall
bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall lay both his
hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over him all
the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their
transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head
of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit
man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear on
him all their iniquities to a land not inhabited: and he
shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
26:39 And
they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity
in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their
fathers shall they pine away with them. 40 If they shall
confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers,
with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and
that also they have walked contrary to me;
Num 5:5
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 6 Speak to the
children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin
that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that
person be guilty; 7 Then they shall confess their sin
which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass
with the principal thereof, and add to it the fifth part
thereof, and give it to him against whom he has trespassed.
2 Sam 12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned
against the LORD. And Nathan said to David, The LORD also
has put away your sin; you shall not die.
24:10 And
David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the
people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in
that I have done: and now, I beseech you, O LORD, take away
the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very
foolishly.
Neh 1:5 And said, I beseech you, O LORD
God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keeps
covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his
commandments: 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your
eyes open, that you may hear the prayer of your servant,
which I pray before you now, day and night, for the children
of Israel your servants, and confess the sins of the
children of Israel, which we have sinned against you: both I
and my father’s house have sinned. 7 We have dealt very
corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments,
nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which you commanded
your servant Moses.
9:2 And the seed of Israel
separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and
confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of
the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day;
and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the
LORD their God.
Job 42:1 Then Job answered the LORD,
and said, 2 I know that you can do every thing, and that
no thought can be withheld from you. 3 Who is he that
hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered
that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I
knew not. 4 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will
demand of you, and declare you to me. 5 I have heard of
you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you. 6
Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Ps
25:11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for
it is great.
32:4 For day and night your hand was
heavy on me: my moisture is turned into the drought of
summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledge my sin to you, and my
iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my
transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of
my sin. Selah.
51:1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your loving kindness: according to the
multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin
is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I
sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be
justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge. 5
Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me. 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know
wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to
hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken
may rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out
all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away
from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me
with your free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors
your ways; and sinners shall be converted to you.
Pr
28:13 He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever
confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.
Jer
3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,
Return, you backsliding Israel, said the LORD; and I will
not cause my anger to fall on you: for I am merciful, said
the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever. 13 Only
acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed
against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to
the strangers under every green tree, and you have not
obeyed my voice, said the LORD.
Dan 9:4 And I prayed
to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O
Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and
mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his
commandments; 5 We have sinned, and have committed
iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by
departing from your precepts and from your judgments: 6
Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets,
which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our
fathers, and to all the people of the land.
9:19 O
Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and do; defer
not, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your
people are called by your name. 20 And whiles I was
speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of
my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the
LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God; 21 Yes,
whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom
I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to
fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
oblation.
Guilt Feelings
1 Joh 3:19 And hereby we
know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts
before him. 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is
greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved,
if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward
God.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were
opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed
fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And
they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the
garden. 9 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to
him, Where are you? 10 And he said, I heard your voice in
the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself. 11 And he said, Who told you that you were naked?
Have you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you
should not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom you
gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
4:13 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater
than I can bear.
Ps 32:2 Blessed is the man to
whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit
there is no guile. 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed
old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and
night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned into
the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledge my sin to
you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess
my transgressions to the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity
of my sin. Selah.
38:3 There is no soundness in my
flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my
bones because of my sin. 4 For my iniquities are gone
over my head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
38:17 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is
continually before me. 18 For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be sorry for my sin.
40:11 Withhold not you
your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving
kindness and your truth continually preserve me. 12 For
innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities
have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart
fails me. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD,
make haste to help me.
51:1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your loving kindness: according to the
multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin
is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I
sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be
justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge. 5
Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me. 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know
wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Accusations
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles,
which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in
the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:
15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts
the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 16
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel.
8:31 What shall we
then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be
against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies. 34
Who is he that comdemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us.
1 Joh 2:1
My little children, these things write I to you, that you
sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the
propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but also
for the sins of the whole world.
3:19 And hereby we
know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts
before him. 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is
greater than our heart, and knows all things. 21 Beloved,
if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward
God.
Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And
the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was
cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with
him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is
come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brothers
is cast down, which accused them before our God day and
night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives to the death.
Zec 3:1 And he showed me
Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the
LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan;
even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was
clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him
he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from
you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment.
Works and the Law Do Not Save
Joh 7:19 Did not
Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law?
Why go you about to kill me?
Acts 13:38 Be it
known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this
man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by
him all that believe are justified from all things, from
which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the
law said, it said to them who are under the law: that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty
before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which
is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that
believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of
works? No: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we
conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds
of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not
also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision
by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then
make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we
establish the law.
4:1 What shall we say then that
Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to
glory; but not before God. 3 For what said the scripture?
Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for
righteousness. 4 Now to him that works is the reward not
reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that works
not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his
faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also
describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes
righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the
world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they
which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the
promise made of none effect: 15 Because the law works
wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the
end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that
only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it
is written, I have made you a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who vivifies the
dead, and calls those things which be not as though they
were.
Gal 2:16 Knowing 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.
2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God:
for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in
vain.
3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you,
that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus
Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are
you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made
perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things
in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that
ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you,
does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness.
3:10 For as many
as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all
things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of
God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that does them
shall live in them. 13 Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: 14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of
the Spirit through faith.
3:15 Brothers, I speak
after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant,
yet if it be confirmed, no man cancels, or adds thereto.
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He
said not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to
your seed, which is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the
law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot
cancel, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of
promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
3:19
Why then serves the law? It was added because of
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand
of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of
one, but God is one. 21 Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law
given which could have given life, truly righteousness
should have been by the law. 22 But the scripture has
concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before
faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith
which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Why the law was
our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we
are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For you are all
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
5:4
Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are
justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.
Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God
in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh. 4 Though I might also have
confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has
whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the
tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the
law, a Pharisee; 6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the
church; touching the righteousness which is in the law,
blameless. 7 But what things were gain to me, those I
counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes doubtless, and I count all
things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of
all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win
Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having my own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is
through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith:
2 Tim 1:9 Who has saved us, and
called us with an holy calling, not according to our works,
but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given
us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Tit
3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior
toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost;
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the
whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do
not kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet if you kill,
you are become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak
you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of
liberty.
Condemnation Removed
Joh 3:18 He
that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes
not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the
name of the only begotten Son of God.
5:24 Truly,
truly, I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on
him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come
into condemnation; but is passed from death to life.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
Not Under the Law
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over
you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. 15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
but under grace? God forbid.
7:1 Know you not,
brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that
the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2
For the woman which has an husband is bound by the law to
her husband so long as he lives; but if the husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if,
while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she
shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead,
she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man. 4 Why, my brothers,
you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that you should be married to another, even to him who is
raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to
God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of
sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to
bring forth fruit to death. 6 But now we are delivered
from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we
should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of
the letter.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For 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:
Gal 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that
I might live to God. 20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made
a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangs on a tree:
4:4 But when the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption of sons.
4:19 My
little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you, 20 I desire to be present with
you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of
you. 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do
you not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham
had two sons, the one by a female slave, the other by a free
woman. 23 But he who was of the female slave was born
after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two
covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which engenders to
bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai
in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in
bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is
above is free, which is the mother of us all. 31 So then,
brothers, we are not children of the female slave, but of
the free.
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty
with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled
again with the yoke of bondage. 13 For, brothers, you
have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an
occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Isa
28:10 For precept must be on precept, precept on precept;
line on line, line on line; here a little, and there a
little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue
will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is
the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and
this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But
the word of the LORD was to them precept on precept, precept
on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, and
there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and
be broken, and snared, and taken.
Faith and Hearing
Mr 16:16 He that believes
and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not
shall be damned.
Lu 8:11 Now the parable is
this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way
side are they that hear; then comes the devil, and takes
away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe
and be saved. 13 They on the rock are they, which, when
they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no
root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation
fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they,
which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with
cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no
fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are
they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the
word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Joh 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that hears my
word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death to life. 25 Truly, truly, I say to you, The
hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Acts 4:4 However, many of them which heard the
word believed; and the number of the men was about five
thousand.
15:7 And when there had been much
disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them, Men and
brothers, you know how that a good while ago God made choice
among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word
of the gospel, and believe.
18:8 And Crispus, the
chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all
his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and
were baptized.
Rom 10:13 For whoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then
shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and
how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how
shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they
have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who
has believed our report? 17 So then faith comes by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
1 Cor
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of
God.
1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after
wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a
stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; 24 But to
them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the
power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Gal 3:1 O
foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should
not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been
evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only
would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works
of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so
foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made
perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things
in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that
ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you,
does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness.
Eph 1:13
In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that
you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of
his glory.
Col 1:23 If you continue in the
faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the
hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was
preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I
Paul am made a minister;
1 Th 2:13 For this
cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you
received the word of God which you heard of us, you received
it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word
of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.
Heb 4:2 For to us was the gospel preached, as
well as to them: but the word preached did not profit them,
not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
Faith and Salvation
Mr 16:15 And he said to
them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature. 16 He that believes and is baptized shall
be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.
Lu 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word
of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then
comes the devil, and takes away the word out of their
hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Joh
1:11 He came to his own, and his own received him not. 12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
3:14 And
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whoever
believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. 18 He that believes on
him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God.
3:36 He that believes on the Son
has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall
not see life; but the wrath of God stays on him.
6:28
Then said they to him, What shall we do, that we might work
the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said to them,
This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has
sent.
6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me,
that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may
have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last
day. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes on
me has everlasting life.
8:24 I said therefore to
you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not
that I am he, you shall die in your sins.
12:36 While
you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the
children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed,
and did hide himself from them. 46 I am come a light into
the world, that whoever believes on me should not abide in
darkness.
16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of
righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no
more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is
judged.
20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in
the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this
book: 31 But these are written, that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing
you might have life through his name.
Acts 4:4
However, many of them which heard the word believed; and the
number of the men was about five thousand.
10:43 To
him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
whoever believes in him shall receive remission of sins.
11:13 And he showed us how he had seen an angel in his
house, which stood and said to him, Send men to Joppa, and
call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; 14 Who shall tell
you words, whereby you and all your house shall be saved.
11:19 Now they which were scattered abroad on the
persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as
Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none
but to the Jews only. 20 And some of them were men of
Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch,
spoke to the Grecians, preaching the LORD Jesus. 21 And
the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number
believed, and turned to the Lord.
15:7 And when there
had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said to them,
Men and brothers, you know how that a good while ago God
made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should
hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8 And God,
which knows the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the
Holy Ghost, even as he did to us; 9 And put no difference
between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I
do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.
26:17 Delivering you from the people, and from the
Gentiles, to whom now I send you, 18 To open their eyes,
and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power
of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins,
and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith
that is in me.
Rom 1:14 I am debtor both to
the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to
the unwise. 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to
preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. 16 For I
am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power
of God to salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew
first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the
righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
3:21 But now
the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to
all and on all them that believe: for there is no
difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom
God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To
declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in
Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what
law? of works? No: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore
we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law. 29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is
he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the
circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid:
yes, we establish the law.
4:1 What shall we say then
that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has
found? 2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has
whereof to glory; but not before God. 3 For what said the
scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him
for righteousness. 4 Now to him that works is the reward
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that
works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness. 6 Even as David
also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God
imputes righteousness without works, 7 Saying, Blessed
are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are
covered. 8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not
impute sin.
4:9 Comes this blessedness then on the
circumcision only, or on the uncircumcision also? for we say
that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10
How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had yet being
uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness
might be imputed to them also: 12 And the father of
circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
4:13
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if they which
are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise
made of none effect: 15 Because the law works wrath: for
where no law is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore
it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the
promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only
which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith
of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is
written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before
him whom he believed, even God, who vivifies the dead, and
calls those things which be not as though they were. 18
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
So shall your seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he
considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And
being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was
able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to
him for righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his
sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us
also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that
raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was
delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our
justification.
5:1 Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace
wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of
righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were
by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling
stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a
stumbling stone and rock of offense: and whoever believes on
him shall not be ashamed.
10:1 Brothers, my heart’s
desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be
saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of
God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being
ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to
establish their own righteousness, have not submitted
themselves to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is
the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believes.
10:5 For Moses describes the righteousness
which is of the law, That the man which does those things
shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness which is of
faith speaks on this wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall
ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from
above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is,
to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what said
it? The word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your
heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9
That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from
the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart man
believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made to salvation. 11 For the scripture said, Whoever
believes on him shall not be ashamed.
10:14 How then
shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and
how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how
shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they
have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who
has believed our report? 17 So then faith comes by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
11:19 You
will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be
grafted in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken
off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed
lest he also spare not you. 22 Behold therefore the
goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity;
but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness:
otherwise you also shall be cut off. 23 And they also, if
they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for
God is able to graft them in again.
14:22 Have you
faith? have it to yourself before God. Happy is he that
comdemns not himself in that thing which he allows. 23
And he that doubts is damned if he eat, because he eats not
of faith: for whatever is not of faith is sin.
1
Cor 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world
by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe.
15:1 Moreover,
brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to
you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand;
2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I
preached to you, unless you have believed in vain.
Gal 2:16 Knowing 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.
3:1
O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should
not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been
evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only
would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works
of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so
foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made
perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things
in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that
ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you,
does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness.
3:7 Know you
therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the
children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that
God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before
the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be
blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed
with faithful Abraham.
3:10 For as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which
are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But
that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it
is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the
law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live
in them. 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangs on a tree: 14 That the blessing of
Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.
3:22 But the scripture has concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we
were kept under the law, shut up to the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. 24 Why the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we
are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For you are all
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Eph
1:13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word
of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after
that you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of
promise, 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of
his glory.
3:11 According to the eternal purpose
which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we
have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of
him.
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having
my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is
through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of
God by faith:
2 Th 2:11 And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we
are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers
beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth:
1 Tim 1:15 This is a
faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am
chief. 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that
in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all
long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting.
1:18 This charge
I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies
which went before on you, that you by them might war a good
warfare; 19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which
some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered
to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
6:11
But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after
righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good
profession before many witnesses.
2 Tim 3:14
But continue you in the things which you have learned and
have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus.
4:6 For I am now ready to
be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith: 8 From now on there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but to all
them also that love his appearing.
Heb 4:1 Let
us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering
into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For to us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but
the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed
do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath,
if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world.
10:38 Now
the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of
them who draw back to perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul.
11:6 But without faith it is
impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
1 Pe 1:3 Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to
his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a lively hope by
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an
inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not
away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the
power of God through faith to salvation ready to be revealed
in the last time.
2:6 Why also it is contained in the
scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone,
elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be
confounded. 7 To you therefore which believe he is
precious: but to them which be disobedient, the stone which
the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the
corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being
disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
1
Joh 5:11 And this is the record, that God has given to
us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that
has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has
not life. 13 These things have I written to you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know
that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the
name of the Son of God.
Hab 2:4 Behold, his
soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith.
The Object of Faith, Jesus
Mt 18:4 Whoever
therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the
same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever
shall receive one such little child in my name receives me.
6 But whoever shall offend one of these little ones which
believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth
of the sea.
Joh 1:11 He came to his own, and
his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name:
2:11 This beginning of
miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth
his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
2:22
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this to them; and they believed
the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whoever
believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. 18 He that believes on
him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God.
3:36 He that believes on the Son
has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall
not see life; but the wrath of God stays on him.
5:37
And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness
of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor
seen his shape. 38 And you have not his word abiding in
you: for whom he has sent, him you believe not. 39 Search
the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life:
and they are they which testify of me. 40 And you will
not come to me, that you might have life.
5:45 Do not
think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one
that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For
had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he
wrote of me. 47 But if you believe not his writings, how
shall you believe my words?
6:28 Then said they to
him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God,
that you believe on him whom he has sent.
6:35 And
Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to
me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall
never thirst.
6:40 And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on
him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at
the last day.
6:67 Then said Jesus to the twelve,
Will you also go away? 68 Then Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal
life. 69 And we believe and are sure that you are that
Christ, the Son of the living God.
7:31 And many of
the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes,
will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?
7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to
me, and drink. 38 He that believes on me, as the
scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
living water. 39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which
they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost
was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.)
8:23 And he said to them, You are from
beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of
this world. 24 I said therefore to you, that you shall
die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he, you
shall die in your sins.
8:28 Then said Jesus to them,
When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know
that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my
Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he
that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone;
for I do always those things that please him. 30 As he
spoke these words, many believed on him. 31 Then said
Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue
in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; 32 And you
shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he
had found him, he said to him, Do you believe on the Son of
God? 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I
might believe on him? 37 And Jesus said to him, You have
both seen him, and it is he that talks with you. 38 And
he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the
life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall
he live: 26 And whoever lives and believes in me shall
never die. Believe you this? 27 She said to him, Yes,
Lord: I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
which should come into the world.
11:45 Then many of
the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which
Jesus did, believed on him. 46 But some of them went
their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus
had done. 47 Then gathered the chief priests and the
Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does
many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will
believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both
our place and nation.
12:10 But the chief priests
consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away,
and believed on Jesus.
12:36 While you have light,
believe in the light, that you may be the children of light.
These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself
from them. 37 But though he had done so many miracles
before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the
saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he
spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has
the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they
could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40 He
has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their
heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. 41 These
things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
12:42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many
believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not
confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of
God.
12:44 Jesus cried and said, He that believes on
me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And
he that sees me sees him that sent me. 46 I am come a
light into the world, that whoever believes on me should not
abide in darkness.
14:1 Let not your heart be
troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.
17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also
which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That
they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in
you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that you have sent me.
20:30 And many other
signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples,
which are not written in this book: 31 But these are
written, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the Son of God; and that believing you might have life
through his name.
Acts 8:5 Then Philip went
down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ to them.
12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things
concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ,
they were baptized, both men and women.
10:43 To him
give all the prophets witness, that through his name whoever
believes in him shall receive remission of sins.
11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he
said, John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17 For as much then as God
gave them the like gift as he did to us, who believed on the
Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
13:38 Be it known to you therefore, men and brothers,
that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of
sins: 39 And by him all that believe are justified from
all things, from which you could not be justified by the law
of Moses.
15:11 But we believe that through the grace
of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I
do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.
19:4 Then said Paul, John truly baptized with the
baptism of repentance, saying to the people, that they
should believe on him which should come after him, that is,
on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, they were
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
20:21
Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus
Christ.
24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came
with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for
Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. 25
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go your way
for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call
for you.
26:17 Delivering you from the people, and
from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you, 18 To open
their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and
from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive
forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are
sanctified by faith that is in me.
Rom 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ to all and on all them that believe: for there is no
difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom
God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To
declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in
Jesus.
5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believes.
10:9 That if you shall
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in
your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall
be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes to
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to
salvation.
1 Cor 15:14 And if Christ be not
risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain. 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain;
you are yet in your sins.
Gal 2:16 Knowing
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. 20 I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for
me.
3:22 But the scripture has concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe.
3:26 For you are all the
children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Eph
1:15 Why I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord
Jesus, and love to all the saints, 16 Cease not to give
thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord: 12 In whom we have boldness and
access with confidence by the faith of him.
Php
1:29 For to you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not
only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now
hear to be in me.
Col 1:3 We give thanks to
God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always
for you, 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
and of the love which you have to all the saints,
2:4
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with
enticing words. 5 For though I be absent in the flesh,
yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding
your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so
walk you in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and
established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.
1 Tim 1:15 This is
a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I
am chief. 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy,
that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all
long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting.
2 Tim 3:14
But continue you in the things which you have learned and
have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus.
Phm 1:4 I thank my
God, making mention of you always in my prayers, 5
Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the
Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;
Heb 12:2
Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
Jas 2:1 My brothers, have
not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,
with respect of persons.
1 Pe 1:7 That the
trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold
that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found
to praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, you love; in whom, though
now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory:
1 Joh 3:23 And
this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us
commandment.
5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that
begat loves him also that is begotten of him.
5:5 Who
is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that
Jesus is the Son of God?
5:10 He that believes on the
Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not
God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record
that God gave of his Son. 11 And this is the record, that
God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. 12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not
the Son of God has not life. 13 These things have I
written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God;
that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you
may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Rev
14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that
keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Where to Look for Salvation?
Joh 1:29 The
next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the
Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his
disciples; 36 And looking on Jesus as he walked, he said,
Behold the Lamb of God! 37 And the two disciples heard
him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Gal 3:1 O
foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should
not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been
evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Heb
3:1 Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling,
consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed
him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking to
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
Regeneration
Joh 1:11 He came to his
own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of
God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.
3:1 There was a man of the
Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The
same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know
that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do
these miracles that you do, except God be with him. 3
Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God. 4 Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s
womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say
to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is
born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said to you, You
must be born again. 8 The wind blows where it wants, and
you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it
comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of
the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can
these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are
you a master of Israel, and know not these things?
1 Cor 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but
as my beloved sons I warn you. 15 For though you have ten
thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel. 16 Why I beseech you, be you followers of me.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new.
Gal 4:29 But as then he
that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born
after the Spirit, even so it is now.
6:14 But God
forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to
the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you
have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put
on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the
image of him that created him:
Tit 3:4 But
after that the kindness and love of God our Savior toward
man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the
washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the
word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of
his creatures. 21 Why lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
1 Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy has begotten
us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead,
1:23 Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which lives and stays for ever. 24 For all flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The
grass wither, and the flower thereof falls away: 25 But
the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word
which by the gospel is preached to you.
1 Joh
2:28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he
shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed
before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is
righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness
is born of him.
3:9 Whoever is born of God does not
commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin,
because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God
are manifest, and the children of the devil: whoever does
not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not
his brother.
4:7 Beloved, let us love one another:
for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God,
and knows God. 8 He that loves not knows not God; for God
is love.
5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that
begat loves him also that is begotten of him.
5:4 For
whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the
victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 5 Who
is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that
Jesus is the Son of God?
5:18 We know that whoever is
born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps
himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
Rev
3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear
my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will
sup with him, and he with me.
Receiving Righteousness
Acts 13:38 Be it
known to you therefore, men and brothers, that through this
man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: 39 And by
him all that believe are justified from all things, from
which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one
that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from
faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by
faith.
3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God
without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law
and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which
is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and on all them that
believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God has set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at
this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
3:27 Where
is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No:
but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a
man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the
Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: 30 Seeing it is one
God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith. 31 Do we then make void the
law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish the law.
4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as
pertaining to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham were
justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before
God. 3 For what said the scripture? Abraham believed God,
and it was counted to him for righteousness. 4 Now to him
that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that works not, but believes on him that
justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for
righteousness. 6 Even as David also describes the
blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness
without works, 7 Saying, Blessed are they whose
iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 8
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
4:9 Comes this blessedness then on the circumcision
only, or on the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith
was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it
then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had yet being
uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness
might be imputed to them also: 12 And the father of
circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only,
but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father
Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. 13 For the
promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to
Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
4:18 Who against hope
believed in hope, that he might become the father of many
nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your
seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered
not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred
years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but
was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being
fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also
to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for
righteousness. 23 Now it was not written for his sake
alone, that it was imputed to him; 24 But for us also, to
whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised
up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for
our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we
have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and
rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
5:8 But God
commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
him.
5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is
the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but
the free gift is of many offenses to justification. 17
For if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more
they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came on all
men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the
free gift came on all men to justification of life. 19
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so
by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20
Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That
as sin has reigned to death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our
Lord.
8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and
whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then
say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against
us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God’s elect? It is God that justifies. 34 Who is he that
comdemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us.
9:30 What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which
is of faith. 31 But Israel, which followed after the law
of righteousness, has not attained to the law of
righteousness. 32 Why? Because they sought it not by
faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they
stumbled at that stumbling stone; 33 As it is written,
Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offense:
and whoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
10:1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for
Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them
record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to
knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s
righteousness, and going about to establish their own
righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the
righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to every one that believes.
10:5
For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law,
That the man which does those things shall live by them.
6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaks on this
wise, Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
(that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who
shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ
again from the dead.) 8 But what said it? The word is
near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is,
the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if you shall
confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in
your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall
be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes to
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made to
salvation. 11 For the scripture said, Whoever believes on
him shall not be ashamed.
1 Cor 1:30 But of
him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us
wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption: 31 That, according as it is written, He that
glories, let him glory in the Lord.
6:11 And such
were some of you: but you are washed, but you are
sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
2 Cor
5:21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Gal 2:16 Knowing 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. 17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we
ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the
minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the
things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I
might live to God. 20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and
the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness
come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
3:5 He
therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works
miracles among you, does he it by the works of the law, or
by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God,
and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know you
therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the
children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that
God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before
the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be
blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed
with faithful Abraham.
3:10 For as many as are of the
works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which
are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But
that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it
is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the
law is not of faith: but, The man that does them shall live
in them.
3:21 Is the law then against the promises of
God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which
could have given life, truly righteousness should have been
by the law. 22 But the scripture has concluded all under
sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we
were kept under the law, shut up to the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. 24 Why the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we
are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For you are all
the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
5:4
Christ is become of no effect to you, whoever of you are
justified by the law; you are fallen from grace. 5 For we
through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by
faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails
any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which works by
love.
Eph 6:13 Why take to you the whole armor
of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having
your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness;
Php 3:3 For we
are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh. 4 Though I might also have confidence in the
flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might
trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day,
of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew
of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the
righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7 But what
things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count
them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in
him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law,
but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
Tit
3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Savior
toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us,
by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus
Christ our Savior; 7 That being justified by his grace,
we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
life.
Heb 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a
more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained
witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts:
and by it he being dead yet speaks. 5 By faith Enoch was
translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation
he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without
faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him. 7 By faith Noah, being
warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
which is by faith.
Rev 22:10 And he said to
me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for
the time is at hand. 11 He that is unjust, let him be
unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy
still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still:
and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Gen
15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number
them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be. 6 And he
believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
Job 15:14 What is man, that he
should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he
should be righteous? 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his
saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks
iniquity like water?
Ps 22:30 A seed shall
serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his
righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has
done this.
Pr 10:2 Treasures of wickedness
profit nothing: but righteousness delivers from death.
11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but
righteousness delivers from death.
Isa 45:22
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for
I am God, and there is none else. 23 I have sworn by
myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, That to me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD
have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men
come; and all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed. 25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be
justified, and shall glory.
46:13 I bring near my
righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for
Israel my glory.
51:5 My righteousness is near; my
salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people;
the isles shall wait on me, and on my arm shall they trust.
53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant
justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper;
and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you
shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the
LORD, and their righteousness is of me, said the LORD.
56:1 Thus said the LORD, Keep you judgment, and do
justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my
righteousness to be revealed.
61:10 I will greatly
rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for
he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has
covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself
with her jewels.
64:6 But we are all as an unclean
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and
we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
Jer 23:5 Behold, the days
come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days
Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and
this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are
determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish
the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the most Holy.
Hab 2:4 Behold, his
soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith.
Zec 3:1 And he showed
me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the
LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you, O Satan;
even the LORD that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was
clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And to him
he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from
you, and I will clothe you with change of raiment. 5 And
I said, Let them set a fair turban on his head. So they set
a fair turban on his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the angel of the LORD stood by.