Acts 3:26

To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

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In The King James Version

Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

In Context

25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

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Cross References

Psalms 67:6\67:5\Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise.

Isaiah 59:20And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:8And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.

Ezekiel 36:25And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

Matthew 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,

Luke 24:47And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.

Matthew Henry on Acts 3:13-26

Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple. 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to… Read the whole commentary →

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