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Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentancec toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Mark 1:15• ¹⁵and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings. (Mark 1:15)

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Luke 24:47• ⁴⁷and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:47)

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Testifying.

Acts 20:24• ²⁴But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God. (Acts 20:24)

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Acts 2:40• ⁴⁰And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation. (Acts 2:40)

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Acts 8:25• ²⁵They therefore, having testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and announced the glad tidings to many villages of the Samaritans. (Acts 8:25)

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Acts 18:5• ⁵And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. (Acts 18:5)

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Acts 28:23• ²³And having appointed him a day many came to him to the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying of the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and the prophets, from early morning to evening. (Acts 28:23)

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1 John 5:11‑13• ¹¹And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
¹³These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:11‑13)

to the Jews.

Acts 18:4• ⁴And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. (Acts 18:4)

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Acts 19:17• ¹⁷And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who inhabited Ephesus, and fear fell upon all of them, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. (Acts 19:17)

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Rom. 1:14• ¹⁴I am a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, both to wise and unintelligent: (Rom. 1:14)

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1 Cor. 1:22• ²²Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom; (1 Cor. 1:22)

repentance.

Acts 2:38• ³⁸And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38)

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Acts 3:19• ¹⁹Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, (Acts 3:19)

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Acts 11:18• ¹⁸And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life. (Acts 11:18)

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Acts 17:30• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent, (Acts 17:30)

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Acts 26:20• ²⁰but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:20)

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Ezek. 18:30‑32• ³⁰Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare.
³¹Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, house of Israel?
³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live. (Ezek. 18:30‑32)

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Matt. 3:2• ²and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh. (Matt. 3:2)

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Matt. 4:17• ¹⁷From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh. (Matt. 4:17)

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Matt. 21:31‑32• ³¹Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but *ye* when ye saw it repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him. (Matt. 21:31‑32)

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Mark 1:15• ¹⁵and saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn nigh; repent and believe in the glad tidings. (Mark 1:15)

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Mark 6:12• ¹²And they went forth and preached that they should repent; (Mark 6:12)

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Luke 13:3,5• ³No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner.
⁵No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner. (Luke 13:3,5)

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Luke 15:7,10• ⁷I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.
¹⁰Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner. (Luke 15:7,10)

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Luke 24:47• ⁴⁷and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:47)

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Rom. 2:4• ⁴or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance? (Rom. 2:4)

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2 Cor. 7:10• ¹⁰For grief according to God works repentance to salvation, never to be regretted; but the grief of the world works death. (2 Cor. 7:10)

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2 Tim. 2:25‑26• ²⁵in meekness setting right those who oppose, if God perhaps may sometime give them repentance to acknowledgment of the truth,
²⁶and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will. (2 Tim. 2:25‑26)

faith.

Acts 10:43• ⁴³To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins. (Acts 10:43)

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Acts 13:38‑39• ³⁸Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,
³⁹and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified. (Acts 13:38‑39)

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Acts 16:31• ³¹And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. (Acts 16:31)

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John 3:15‑18,36• ¹⁵that every one who believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.
¹⁷For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.
¹⁸He that believes on him is not judged: but he that believes not has been already judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
³⁶He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. (John 3:15‑18,36)

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John 20:31• ³¹but these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life in his name. (John 20:31)

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Rom. 1:16• ¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the glad tidings; for it is God's power to salvation, to every one that believes, both to Jew first and to Greek: (Rom. 1:16)

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Rom. 3:22‑26• ²²righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;
²³for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
²⁴being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
²⁵whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;
²⁶for the shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of the faith of Jesus. (Rom. 3:22‑26)

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Rom. 4:24• ²⁴but on ours also, to whom, believing on him who has raised from among the dead Jesus our Lord, (Rom. 4:24)

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Rom. 5:1• ¹Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ; (Rom. 5:1)

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Rom. 10:9• ⁹that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Rom. 10:9)

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Gal. 2:16,20• ¹⁶but knowing that a man is not justified on the principle of works of law nor but by the faith of Jesus Christ, *we* also have believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified on the principle of the faith of Christ; and not of works of law; because on the principle of works of law no flesh shall be justified.
²⁰I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me. (Gal. 2:16,20)

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Gal. 3:22• ²²but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe. (Gal. 3:22)

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1 John 5:1,5,11‑13• ¹Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.
⁵Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
¹¹And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
¹³These things have I written to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life who believe on the name of the Son of God. (1 John 5:1,5,11‑13)

• The spiritual eye is to be set on Christ as the object of faith, but with scrutiny of self subjectively before God, and hence comes a real judgment of sins and sin. There may not be peace, and there is not when this self-judgment with sorrow of heart begins; but faith in a God revealed to the conscience is surely there, though not yet rest by faith in the accepted and appropriated work of redemption. When Christ's work and God's grace are better and fully known, the self-judgment of repentance is so much the more profound. In this case the judgment-seat of Christ, however solemn, is no longer an object of dread. All is out already in conscience, and the flesh is judged as a hateful thing, and so evil really that nothing but the cross of Christ could be an adequate dealing with it (“On Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

• Paul had done this, not with the pride of a teacher, but with the humility and the perseverance of love. (“Acts 20” by J.N. Darby)

• It was in this neighborhood and during this visit apparently that Timothy was brought to the Lord through the Apostle Paul (1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2); for in Acts 16:1 he is spoken of as already a disciple in Derbe and Lystra, well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. (“Acts 14:20-28” by W. Kelly)

• Repentance and faith are inseparable where there is reality. (“Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

• It is well when the repentance toward God is as deep as the faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ is unhesitating. All then goes happily forward with the soul. (“Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

• The low views which make repentance a human work as a preface to faith are no less objectionable than the so-called high views which merge all in faith, making repentance no more than a change of mind. (“Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

• Repentance then is not mere regret or remorse, which is expressly μεταμέλεια; μετάνοια is that afterthought, or judgment on reflection, formed by God’s working through His word to which conscience bows, as self and its past ways are judged before God. It is never apart from a divine testimony, and hence from faith; God’s goodness, not His judgment only, leads to it; and godly sorrow works repentance unto salvation not to be regretted, as the sorrow of the world works death. (“Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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testifying to both Jews and Greeks repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ.

W. Kelly Translation

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testifying both to Jews and to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.