Acts 4:29
And now, O Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to your servants that they may speak your word with all confidence,
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In Context
28to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done.
Cross References
Isaiah 58:1Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Lamentations 3:50AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
Ezekiel 2:6But as for you, son of man, you should not fear them, and you should not dread their words. For you are among unbelievers and subversives, and you are living with scorpions. You should not fear their words, and you should not dread their faces. For they are a provoking house.
Micah 3:8Nevertheless, truly I have been filled with the strength of the Spirit of the Lord, with judgment and virtue, in order to announce to Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin.
Acts 4:17But lest it spread further among the people, let us threaten them not to speak anymore in this name to any man.”
Acts 4:31And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was moved. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And they were speaking the Word of God with confidence.
Matthew Henry on Acts 4:24-32
The Apostles Return to Their Company; The Devout Appeal of the Apostles. 23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. 24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? 26 The kings of the earth… Read the whole commentary →