Acts 7:53
who received the law as the ordinances of angels, and kept it not.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 enraged in their hearts, and gnashed their teeth against him.
Cross References
John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
Romans 2:23Thou that makest thy boast in law, through the transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
Galatians 6:13For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire that ye should be circumcised, 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 →