The Council at Jerusalem

15 Certain people(A) came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers:(B) “Unless you are circumcised,(C) according to the custom taught by Moses,(D) you cannot be saved.”

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15 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

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made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions(A)—it is by grace you have been saved.(B)

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Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

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For it is by grace(A) you have been saved,(B) through faith(C)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

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For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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he saved us,(A) not because of righteous things we had done,(B) but because of his mercy.(C) He saved us through the washing(D) of rebirth and renewal(E) by the Holy Spirit,

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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;

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He has saved(A) us and called(B) us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done(C) but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

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Who hath 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,

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39 Through him everyone who believes(A) is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.(B)

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

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28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.(A)

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28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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Peace and Hope

Therefore, since we have been justified(A) through faith,(B) we[a] have peace(C) with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 5:1 Many manuscripts let us

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.(A)

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32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

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10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

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

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16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law,(A) but by faith in Jesus Christ.(B) So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 2:16 Or but through the faithfulness of … justified on the basis of the faithfulness of

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.

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11 Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God,(A) because “the righteous will live by faith.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:11 Hab. 2:4

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.

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