Acts 11:17
If then God gave them the same grace, as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, that could withstand God?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 33:13Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
Job 40:8Hide them in the dust together, and plunge their faces into the pit.
Matthew 20:14Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.
Acts 10:45And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished, for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.
Acts 11:15And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.
Romans 9:15For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy; and I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy.
Matthew Henry on Acts 11:2-19
Peter's Vindication. 1 And the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great… Read the whole commentary →