Acts 7:53
You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17\68:16\Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?
Romans 2:23You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Galatians 6:13Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your 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 →