Acts 7:53

who have received the law as the ordinances of angels and you did not keep it.” 1 Stephen Martyred

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .

In Context

52Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers,

54Now hearing these things they were infuriated in their hearts, and were gnashing their teeth against him.

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Cross References

John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why are you seeking to kill Me?”

Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

Galatians 6:13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may boast 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 →

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