Acts 7:53

you who received the law as ordained by angels yet have not kept it.”

Text-Critical English 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? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

54When the members of the Sanhedrin heard these things, they were enraged and began gnashing their teeth at him.

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Cross References

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you seeking to kill me?”

Romans 2:23Yoʋ who boast in the law, do yoʋ dishonor God by transgressing the law?

Galatians 6:13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about 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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