Acts 7:53
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 shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
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
- you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
- KJV
- Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
- WEB
- You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
- ASV
- ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
- DARBY
- who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].
- BLB
- [you] who received the law by the ordination of angels, and did not keep [it].”
- ÅB
- Dere som mottok loven gitt ved engler og ikke har holdt den!
- OTB
- dere som mottok loven gitt gjennom engler, men ikke har holdt den.»
- B1930
- I som mottok loven gitt ved engler og ikke har holdt den!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 2:2
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Read in contextGalatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Read in contextActs 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Read in contextJohn 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:2
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Read in contextGalatians 6:13
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
Read in contextRomans 2:23–25
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Read in contextEzekiel 20:18–21
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
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