Acts 15:18
16 ‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
17 so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things
that have been known for ages.’
19 It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- that have been known for ages.’
- KJV
- Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- WEB
- “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
- ASV
- Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
- DARBY
- known from eternity.
- BLB
- known from the age.’
- ÅB
- som er kjent av ham fra evighet av.
- OTB
- sier Herren, som har gjort disse tingene kjent fra lenge siden.
- B1930
- som er kjent av ham fra evighet av.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 1:4
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
Read in contextEphesians 3:9
and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.
Read in contextIsaiah 46:9–10
Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
Read in context1 Peter 1:20
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
Read in contextEphesians 1:11
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
Read in contextActs 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
Read in contextNumbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Read in contextMatthew 13:35
So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”
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