Acts 3:26

New American Bible - revised edition

For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

Cross References

Psalm 72:17

May his name be forever; as long as the sun, may his name endure. May the tribes of the earth give blessings with his name; may all the nations regard him as favored.

Jeremiah 31:18

Indeed, I heard Ephraim rocking in grief: You chastised me, and I was chastised; I was like an untamed calf. Bring me back, let me come back, for you are the Lord, my God.

Matthew 1:21

She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 15:24

He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Luke 24:47

and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

John 4:22

You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 13:26

“My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.

Acts 2:32

God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses.

Acts 26:20

On the contrary, first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached the need to repent and turn to God, and to do works giving evidence of repentance.

Acts 3:13

The God of Abraham, [the God] of Isaac, and [the God] of Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to release him.

Acts 3:15

The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.

Acts 3:20

and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment and send you the Messiah already appointed for you, Jesus,

Acts 3:22

For Moses said: ‘A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kinsmen; to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.

Acts 3:25

You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.

Romans 15:29

and I know that in coming to you I shall come in the fullness of Christ’s blessing.

Romans 15:8

For I say that Christ became a minister of the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, to confirm the promises to the patriarchs,

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens,

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 3:9

Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.

Jude 1:24

To the one who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished and exultant, in the presence of his glory,