Luke 1:77
Good News Translation
to tell his people that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

New Revised Standard Version
to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.

Contemporary English Version
You will tell his people that they can be saved when their sins are forgiven.

New American Bible
to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

Douay-Rheims Bible
To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins.

give.

Luke 3:3,6 And he came into all the country about the Jordan, preaching the baptism of penance for the remission of sins. . . .

Mark 1:3,4 A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight his paths. . . .

John 1:7-9,15-17,29,34 This man came for a witness, to give testimony of the light, that all men might believe through him. . . .

John 3:27-36 John answered and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. . . .

Acts 19:4 Then Paul said: John baptized the people with the baptism of penance saying: That they should believe in him, who was to come after him, that is to say, in Jesus.

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Luke 7:47-50 Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less. . . .

Acts 2:38 But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts 3:19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

Acts 10:43 To him all the prophets give testimony, that by his name all receive remission of sins, who believe in him.

Acts 13:38,39 Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. . . .

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Romans 4:6-8 As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works: . . .

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his, grace,

Context
Zechariah's Song
76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt, go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways: 77To give knowledge of salvation to his people, unto the remission of their sins. 78Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in which the Orient from on high hath visited us:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Mark 1:4
John was in the desert, baptizing and preaching the baptism of penance, unto remission of sins.

Luke 1:76
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