Verse 17

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 10:47 : 47 Will any man say that these may not have baptism who have been given the Holy Spirit as we have?
  • Matt 20:14-15 : 14 Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you. 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Acts 5:39 : 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
  • Acts 10:45 : 45 And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,
  • Acts 11:15 : 15 And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us; 9 Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity. 16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.
  • Rom 9:20-26 : 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so? 21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame? 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction: 23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory, 24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved. 26 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.
  • Rom 11:34-36 : 34 Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes? 35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
  • Job 9:12-14 : 12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing? 13 God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him. 14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
  • Job 40:8-9 : 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld. 9 Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?