Acts 13:39

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“and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Justification

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Romans 10:4 "For Christ is the fulfillmentor, completion, or end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes."
Galatians 2:16 "yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that…"
Romans 8:3 "For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for…"
Hebrews 7:19 "(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God."
Romans 10:10 "For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spir…"
Romans 4:15 "For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience."
Romans 3:19 "Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the worl…"

Commentary

by him all that believe are justified from all things--The sense requires that a pause in the sentence be made here: "By him the believer is absolved from all charges of the law." What follows, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses--is not an exceptional but an explanatory clause. The meaning is not, "Though the law justifies from many things, it cannot justify from all things, but Christ makes up all deficiencies"; but the meaning is, "By Christ the believer is justified from all things, whereas the law justifies from nothing." (Note.--The deeper sense of justification, the positive side of it, is reserved for the Epistles, addressed to the justified themselves: and whereas it is the resurrection of Christ here, and throughout the Acts chiefly, which is dwelt on, because the first thing in order to bring peace to the guilty through Christ was to establish His Messiahship by His resurrection, in the Epistles to believers His death as the way of reconciliation is fully unfolded).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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