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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• ¹⁵{i}and saying,{/i} 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 forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all the Gentiles beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:47)

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Testifying.

Acts 20:24• ²⁴But I hold not my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel 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, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and evangelized many villages of the Samaritans. (Acts 8:25)

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Acts 18:5• ⁵And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed with 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 unto him into the lodging, to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, from both the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening. (Acts 28:23)

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

to the Jews.

Acts 18:4• ⁴And he was discoursing in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuading Jews and Greeks. (Acts 18:4)

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

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

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1 Cor. 1:22• ²²since both Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom; (1 Cor. 1:22)

repentance.

Acts 2:38• ³⁸And Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized each of you in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins; and ye shall 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 seasons 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 were still and glorified God, saying, Then indeed also to the Gentiles did God give repentance unto life. (Acts 11:18)

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

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Acts 26:20• ²⁰but reported both to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judea and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:20)

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Ezek. 18:30‑32• (Ezek. 18:30‑32)

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

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

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

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Mark 1:15• ¹⁵{i}and saying,{/i} 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• ¹²{i}And they went forth and preached that they should repent;{/i} (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 like 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 over ninety and nine righteous, such as 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 forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all the Gentiles 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 leadeth thee to repentance? (Rom. 2:4)

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2 Cor. 7:10• ¹⁰For grief according to God worketh repentance to salvation not to be regretted: but the grief of the world worketh out death. (2 Cor. 7:10)

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2 Tim. 2:25‑26• ²⁵in meekness instructing those that oppose, if haply God may give them repentance unto acknowledgment of truth,
²⁶and they may wake up out of the snare of the devil, taken as they are 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 believeth on him shall receive remission of sins through his Name. (Acts 10:43)

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Acts 13:38‑39• ³⁸Be it known to you therefore [men-] brethren, that through this [Man] remission of sins is preached to you;
³⁹and from all things from which ye could not in Moses' law be justified, in him every one that believeth is justified. (Acts 13:38‑39)

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

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John 3:15‑18,36• ¹⁵that every one that believeth on him should [not perish, but] have life eternal.
¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that every one that believeth on him should not perish but have life eternal.
¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world that he should judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
¹⁸He that believeth on him is not judged; but he that believeth not hath been already judged, because he hath not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
³⁶He that believeth on the Son hath life eternal, and he that believeth not on the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on 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 may have life in his name. (John 20:31)

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Rom. 1:16• ¹⁶for I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is God's power unto salvation to everyone that believeth, both to Jew first and to Greek. (Rom. 1:16)

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Rom. 3:22‑26• ²²even God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all that believe. For there is no difference;
²³for all sinned, and come short of the glory of God,
²⁴being justified gratuitously by his grace through the redemption that [is] in Christ Jesus,
²⁵whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
²⁶with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:22‑26)

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Rom. 4:24• ²⁴but on our account also, to whom it shall be reckoned, to us that believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord out of [the] dead, (Rom. 4:24)

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Rom. 5:1• ¹Having then, been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Rom. 5:1)

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Rom. 10:9• ⁹that, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth [the] Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God raised him out of [the] dead, thou shalt be saved. (Rom. 10:9)

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Gal. 2:16,20• ¹⁶knowing that no man is justified by works of law, but by faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith of Christ and not by works of law; because by works of law shall no flesh be justified.
²⁰With Christ I am crucified, yet I live, no longer I, but Christ liveth in me; but that which I now live in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God that loved me and gave himself up for me. (Gal. 2:16,20)

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Gal. 3:22• ²²But the scripture hath shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those that believe. (Gal. 3:22)

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1 John 5:1,5,11‑13• ¹Every one that believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God, and every one that loveth him that begot loveth also him that is begotten of him.
⁵Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
¹¹And this is the witness that God gave to us life eternal, and this life is in his Son.
¹²He that hath the Son hath life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
¹³These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye that believe on the name of the Son of God have life eternal. (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 onto 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.