Acts 7:53
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
World English 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 children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
Psalms 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
John 7:19Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
Romans 2:23You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
Galatians 6:13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, so 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 →