Acts 5:38

So in the current case I recommend that you leave these men alone, and just let them go. If what they are planning or what they are doing comes from their own human thinking, then it will be defeated.

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In The King James Version

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

In Context

37Then after him Judas of Galilee came along at the time of the census, and he attracted some followers. He also died, and those who listened to him were dispersed.

39But if it comes from God, you won't be able to defeat them. You could even find yourselves fighting against God!”

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Cross References

Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the cunning so that they are unsuccessful.

Proverbs 21:30Whatever wisdom, understanding, or guidance you may have is nothing before the Lord.

Isaiah 8:9Pay attention, you nations, and be smashed! Listen, all you distant lands, get ready, but you will be smashed. Get ready, but you will be smashed.

Lamentations 3:37Who spoke and it came into existence? Wasn't it the Lord who commanded it?

John 11:48If we allow him to continue, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will destroy both the Temple and our status as a nation.”

1 Corinthians 1:26Brothers and sisters, remember your calling—and that this did not include many who are wise, humanly speaking; not many who are powerful; not many who are important.

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:27-42

The Seizing of the Apostles; The Examination of the Apostles; The Advice of Gamaliel. 26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. 27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29… Read the whole commentary →

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