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Acts 10:35

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

But that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

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Gabriel came into her presence and said: "Hail, you who have been highly favored! The Lord is with you."

A religious man and one who reverenced God, with all his household. He was liberal in his charities to the people, and prayed to God constantly.

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

And so it came about that the Church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by reverence for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves;

The Divine Righteousness which is bestowed, through faith in Jesus Christ, upon all, without distinction, who believe in him.

For it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;

And submit to one another from reverence for him.

For it is we who are the circumcised--we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely upon external privileges;

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman; but Christ is all!--and in all!

Knowing him to be righteous, you realize that every one who lives righteously has received the new Life from him.




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