Acts 7:53
You who have received the law as delivered by angels, and have not kept it.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .
In Context
54When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
Cross References
John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?
Romans 2:23You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonour God by breaking the law?
Galatians 6:13For not even those who are circumcised keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, 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 →