Acts 5:38
Acts chapter 5 · verse 38 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown:
Context
v.37After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the enrolment, and drew away some of the people after him: he also perished; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
v.38This passage
v.39but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:12
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- John 11:48
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
- Lamentations 3:37
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- Matthew 15:13
But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.
- Isaiah 14:25
that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.
- Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces.