Acts 7:53

Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 haue not your fathers persecuted? and they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,

54But when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:1In the third moneth, after the children of Israel were gone out of the lande of Egypt, the same day came they into the wildernes of Sinai.

Psalms 68:17The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.

John 7:19Did not Moses giue you a Law, and yet none of you keepeth the lawe? Why goe ye about to kill me?

Romans 2:23Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

Galatians 6:13For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce 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 →

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