Acts 3:26

To you first God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you; that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 children of the prophets, and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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Cross References

Psalms 67:6Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give praise to thee:

Isaiah 59:20And there shall come a, redeemer to Sion, and to them that return from iniquity in Jacob, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me: and I will forgive all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and despised me.

Ezekiel 36:25And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

Matthew 10:5These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

Luke 24:47And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

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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