Bible Verses About Confessing Christ

“Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this.

This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!

“But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him.

For David says this about him: ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

For this reason, my heart was glad; and my tongue rejoiced; and now my body too will live on in the certain hope

that you will not abandon me to Sh’ol or let your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your presence.’

“Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day.

Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne,

he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay.

God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!

“Moreover, he has been exalted to the right hand of God; has received from the Father what he promised, namely, the Ruach HaKodesh; and has poured out this gift, which you are both seeing and hearing.

For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,

‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

Therefore, let the whole house of Isra’el know beyond doubt that God has made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua, whom you executed on a stake!”

They had the emissaries stand before them and asked, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”

Then Kefa, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health,

then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.

“This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone.

There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”

Kefa and the other emissaries answered, “We must obey God, not men.

The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake.

God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.

We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”