Acts 10:43:
'All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.'
(NIV)
To Him all the prophets testify (bear witness) that everyone who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him, giving himself up to Him] receives forgiveness of sins through His name.
(AMP)
To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
(KJV)
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If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.
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John 11:25:
Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even though they die;'
(NIV)
Jesus said to her, I am [Myself] the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on) Me, although he may die, yet he shall live
(AMP)
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
(KJV)
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A moment comes in the life of every man or woman when he or she must decide whether to be an average middleclass american who adheres to moderate political views and believes in some sort of 'higer power', or a drunken, pork eating, whoremongering infidel.
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1 John 5:1:
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.
(NIV)
EVERYONE WHO believes (adheres to, trusts, and relies on the fact) that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah) is a born-again child of God; and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him (His offspring).
(AMP)
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
(KJV)
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Mark 16:16:
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
(NIV)
He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of eternal death]; but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] will be condemned.
(AMP)
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
(KJV)
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Romans 10:10:
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
(NIV)
For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
(AMP)
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
(KJV)
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John 6:47:
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.
(NIV)
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life.
(AMP)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
(KJV)
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Romans 10:4:
Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
(NIV)
For Christ is the end of the Law [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of its types, and in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him.
(AMP)
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
(KJV)
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