Acts 7:53
who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54And hearing these words, they were cut through their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you does the law. Why do you seek to kill me?
Romans 2:23do you, who boast in the law, through the transgression of the law dishonor God?
Galatians 6:13For neither do those who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may glory 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 →