Acts 7:53

Acts chapter 7 · verse 53 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

Context

v.52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

v.53This passage

v.54Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • John 7:19

    Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

  • Deuteronomy 33:2

    And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

  • Galatians 3:19

    What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

  • Hebrews 2:2

    For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

  • Psalms 68:17

    The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands: The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.

  • Romans 2:23

    thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?