Acts 15:18
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, 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
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Read in contextEphesians 3:9
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Read in contextIsaiah 46:9–10
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Read in context1 Peter 1:20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Read in contextEphesians 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Read in contextActs 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Read in contextNumbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Read in contextMatthew 13:35
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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