Acts 7:53
You received the law by the actions of Angels, and yet you have not kept it.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month of the departure of Israel from the land of Egypt, in that day, they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? And yet not one among you keeps the law!
Romans 2:23You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.
Galatians 6:13And yet, neither do they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law. Instead, they want you to be circumcised, so that they may 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 →