Acts 7:53
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.””
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BSBPD
“you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep <FI>it<Fi> .'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Acts 7:53 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:1In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Deuteronomy 33:2He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.
- Ezekiel 20:18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
- Acts 7:38He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
- Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
- Galatians 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- Galatians 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
- Hebrews 2:2For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
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