Acts 7:53
you people who received the law that angels had established, but you did not keep it.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the people of Israel had gone out from the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; 1 the Lord is among them in the holy place, as at Sinai. 1
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”
Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Galatians 6:13For not even those who circumcised themselves keep the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may 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 →