Quotes About Redemption

Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”

I persecuted this Way even to the death, detaining both men and women and throwing them into prison,

And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.í

ëLord,í I answered, ëthey know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.í

And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.