Acts 15:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

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  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
  • Isa 41:22-23 : 22 Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true. 23 Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.
  • Isa 44:7 : 7 If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
  • Isa 45:21 : 21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
  • Isa 46:9-9 : 9 Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me; 10 Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
  • Matt 13:35 : 35 That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
  • Matt 25:34 : 34 Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
  • Eph 3:9 : 9 And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
  • 1 Pet 1:20 : 20 Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
  • Rev 13:8 : 8 And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.
  • Rev 17:8 : 8 The beast which you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.

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