Bible Strands
Acts 15:11
On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A speaker addresses the Jerusalem council, countering those who demand Gentile converts submit to the Mosaic law. He speaks after rejecting a burdensome yoke and before the assembly listens to Barnabas and Paul’s report.
The words — διὰ (dia) = through; χάριτος (charitos) = grace. The phrase διὰ τῆς χάριτος τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ literally reads "through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ."
The thread — The same grace-centered salvation appears in Romans 3:24, Titus 3:4, and Ephesians 2:5. These passages consistently tie justification and new life to divine grace operating through Christ.
Why it lands — The text states that salvation comes through Jesus Christ’s grace, not human effort. It requires the reader to abandon self-reliance and accept deliverance as an unearned gift.
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The Greek words
King James Version
But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Cross-references
- Romans 3:24 and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Titus 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
- Ephesians 2:5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
- Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
- Galatians 2:16 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
- Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- 1 Corinthians 16:23 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.