Acts 4:28

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“They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.”

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BSBPD

“They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 4:28 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
  2. Job 12:13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
  3. Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
  4. Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
  5. Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
  6. Isaiah 28:29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
  7. Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
  8. Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  9. Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
  10. Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
  11. Matthew 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
  12. Luke 22:22Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
  13. Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
  14. Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
  15. Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
  16. Acts 13:27The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
  17. Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
  18. Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
  19. 1 Peter 2:7To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

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