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39 and through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior and follows Him] is [a]justified and declared free of guilt from all things, from which you could not be justified and freed of guilt through the Law of Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:39 Because of one’s personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, God graciously credits His righteousness to the believer. Justification denotes a legal standing with God as designated only by God. God declares a believer to be acquitted (absolved, freed of all charges), then designates the believer to be brought into right standing before Him.

First Missionary Journey

13 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets [who spoke a new message of God to the people] and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called [a]Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen who had been brought up with [b]Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch, and Saul.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:1 A Latin word spelled with Greek letters.
  2. Acts 13:1 Herod Antipas, the Herod who beheaded John the Baptist.

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