Acts 7:53

who received the law at directions of heavenly agents, and did not keep it.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

54Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:1In the third month after the sons of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands. LORD is among them, [as in] Sinai, in the sanctuary.

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and none of you does the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

Romans 2:23Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.

Galatians 6:13For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54

Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →

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