Bible Verses About Confessing Christ

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet--my flesh also shall rest on hope,

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

`This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

at the right hand then of God having been exalted--also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father--he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

till I make thy foes thy footstool;

assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him--this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

`This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'