Acts 6:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And all that sate in the counsell, loking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had ben the face of an angell.

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  • Eccl 8:1 : 1 Who is wise? who hath knowledge to make an aunswere? A mans wysdome maketh his face to shine: but vnshamefastnes putteth it out of fauour.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say vnto you, that who so euer is angry with his brother, vnaduisedly, shalbe in daunger of iudgement. And who so euer shall say vnto his brother, racha, shalbe in daunger of a councell: But, whosoeuer shall saye (thou) foole, shalbe in daunger of hell fire.
  • Matt 13:43 : 43 Then shall the ryghteous shine as the Sunne, in the kingdome of their father. Who hath eares to heare, let hym heare.
  • Matt 17:2 : 2 And was transfigured before them, and his face did shyne as the sunne, and his clothes were as whyte as the lyght.
  • 2 Cor 3:7-8 : 7 Yf the ministration of death, through the letters figured in stones, was in glorie, so that the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moyses, for the glorie of his countenaunce, whiche glorie is done away: 8 Howe shall not the ministration of the spirite be much more in glorie?
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all behold as in a mirrour, the glorie of the Lorde, with his face open, and are chaunged vnto the same similitude, from glorie to glorie, euen as of the spirite of the Lorde.
  • Exod 34:29-35 : 29 And when Moyses came downe from mount Sinai, the two tables of testimonie were in Moyses hande: when he came downe from the mount, Moyses wyste not that the skynne of his face shone, whyle he talked with hym. 30 And Aaron and all the chyldren of Israel looked vpon Moyses: and beholde, the skynne of his face shone, and they were afrayde to come nye hym. 31 And when Moyses had called them, Aaron and all the chiefe of the congregation came vnto him: and Moyses talked with them. 32 And afterwarde all the chyldren of Israel came nye: and he commaunded them all that the Lorde had sayde vnto hym in mount Sinai. 33 And when Moyses had made an ende of communyng with them, he put a coueryng vpon his face. 34 And agayne when Moyses went in before the Lorde to speake with hym, he toke the coueryng of, vntyll he came out: And he came out and spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, that whiche he was commaunded. 35 And the chyldren of Israel sawe the face of Moyses: that the skynne of Moyses face shone, and Moyses put the coueryng vpon his face agayne, vntyll he went in to commune with hym.

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