Acts 7:53

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.

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  • Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
  • Heb 2:2 : 2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
  • Deut 33:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to 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.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?
  • Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us:
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Exod 19:1-9 : 1 In the third month, when the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the desert of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, This is what you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD. 9 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD. 10 And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai. 12 And you shall set boundaries for the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you do not go up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whoever touches the mount shall surely be put to death: 13 No hand shall touch it, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day; do not come near your wives. 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount. 18 And Mount Sinai was all in smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount, and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
  • Rom 2:23-25 : 23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
  • Ps 68:17 : 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
  • Ezek 20:18-21 : 18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: 19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20 And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21 Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

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    40Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

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    47Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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    8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.