Acts 5:38
And nowe I say vnto you, Refraine your selues from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsell, or this worke be of men, it will come to nought:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
39But if it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest ye be found euen fighters against God.
Cross References
Job 5:12He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisedome, neither vnderstanding, nor counsell against the Lord.
Isaiah 8:9Gather together on heapes, O ye people, and ye shalbe broken in pieces, and hearken all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces.
Lamentations 3:37Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?
John 11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.
1 Corinthians 1:26For brethren, you see your calling, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.
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 →