Acts 11:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?”

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 10:47 : 47 “No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”
  • Matt 20:14-15 : 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you. 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Acts 5:39 : 39 but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God.” He convinced them,
  • Acts 10:45 : 45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
  • Acts 11:15 : 15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For he says to Moses:“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
  • Rom 9:20-26 : 20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?” 21 Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use? 22 But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction? 23 And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory– 24 even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he also says in Hosea:“I will call those who were not my people,‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved,‘My beloved.’” 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”
  • Rom 11:34-36 : 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? 35 Or who has first given to God, that God needs to repay him? 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
  • Job 9:12-14 : 12 If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’ 13 God does not restrain his anger; under him the helpers of Rahab lie crushed. 14 The Impossibility of Facing God in Court“How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?
  • Job 40:2 : 2 “Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”
  • Job 40:8-9 : 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right? 9 Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 11:15-16
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    15 Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

    16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

  • Acts 11:18
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    18 When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying,“So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

  • Acts 10:44-47
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    44 The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

    45 The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

    46 for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

    47 “No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?”

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

    11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

  • Acts 15:7-8
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    7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,“Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

    8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

  • Gal 2:6-9
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    6 But from those who were influential(whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people)– those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

    7 On the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised just as Peter was entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised

    8 (for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

    9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

  • Acts 15:10-12
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    10 So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

    11 On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

    12 The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

  • Acts 11:1
    73%

    1 Peter Defends His Actions to the Jerusalem Church Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.

  • Rom 15:15-18
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    15 But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

    16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    17 So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Acts 11:23
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    23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    72%

    5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

  • Gal 2:14
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    14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

  • Eph 3:7
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    7 I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
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    5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

  • Acts 19:2-3
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    2 and said to them,“Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They replied,“No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

    3 So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

  • 2 Cor 11:7
    72%

    7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?

  • Acts 10:29
    71%

    29 Therefore when you sent for me, I came without any objection. Now may I ask why you sent for me?”

  • Acts 11:12
    71%

    12 The Spirit told me to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house.

  • Acts 11:21
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    21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

  • Acts 14:27
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    27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

  • Acts 8:17
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    17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 14:3
    70%

    3 So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

  • Rom 11:13
    70%

    13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

  • Acts 21:19
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    19 When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 13:46
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    46 Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

  • Gal 2:11
    70%

    11 Paul Rebukes Peter But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.

  • Gal 1:24
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    24 So they glorified God because of me.

  • 1 Tim 1:12
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    12 I am grateful to the one who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful in putting me into ministry,

  • Acts 13:48
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    48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

  • Acts 18:27
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    27 When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

  • Acts 22:19
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    19 I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

  • Acts 26:19
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    19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Gal 1:16
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    16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

  • Acts 26:17
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    17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

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