Acts 11:17

if then God gave to them the equal gift as also to us, having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, I—how was I able to withstand God?”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

In Context

16and I remembered the saying of the LORD, how He said, John indeed immersed in water, but you will be immersed in the Holy Spirit;

18And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, “Then, indeed, God also gave conversion to life to the nations.”

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Cross References

Job 33:13Why have you striven against Him, || When [for] all His matters He does not answer?

Job 40:8Do you also make My judgment void? Do you condemn Me, || That you may be righteous?

Matthew 20:14Take that which is yours, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to you;

Acts 10:45and those of circumcision [who were] believing were astonished—as many as came with Peter—because the gift of the Holy Spirit has also been poured out on the nations,

Acts 11:15And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as also on us in the beginning,

Romans 9:15For to Moses He says, “I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion”;

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 →

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