Acts 13:39

World English Bible (2000)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ἐν τούτῳ πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων δικαιοῦται.

Transliteration

in this every the pisteuōn dikaioutai.

Grammar Details

• *pisteuōn*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, singular - believing
• *dikaioutai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd person singular - is justified

Word Meanings

• *pisteuōn*: believing/trusting/having faith
• *dikaioutai*: is justified/is declared righteous/is acquitted

Referenced Verses

• Gal 2:16 : 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 we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Rom 8:3 : 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 sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Rom 10:10 : 10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• Heb 7:19 : 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
• Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
• Heb 10:4 : 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
• Heb 10:11 : 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• Rom 8:30-34 : 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified. 31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• Rom 9:31 : 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.
• Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
• Gal 3:10-12 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." 12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
• Gal 3:21-25 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law. 22 But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
• Gal 5:3 : 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Phil 3:6-9 : 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. 7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Job 9:20 : 20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Ps 143:2 : 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
• Jer 31:32 : 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
• Hab 2:4 : 4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Luke 10:25 : 25 Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
• Luke 10:28 : 28 He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
• Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
• John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• John 5:24 : 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• Acts 10:43 : 43 All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."
• Rom 3:19 : 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 world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 3:24-30 : 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus. 27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• Rom 4:5-8 : 5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. 6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, 7 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
• Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Rom 4:24 : 24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
• Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Rom 5:9 : 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
• Rom 5:20 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Rom 7:9-9 : 9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
• Rom 8:1 : 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 Spirit.