Acts 11:17

World English Bible (2000)

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 10:47 : 47 "Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
  • Matt 20:14-15 : 14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? 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 overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
  • Acts 10:45 : 45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
  • Acts 11:15 : 15 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 For he said 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 is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
  • Rom 9:20-26 : 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?" 21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved." 26 "It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children 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 him, and it will be repaid to him again?" 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
  • Job 9:12-14 : 12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' 13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him. 14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
  • Job 40:2 : 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."
  • Job 40:8-9 : 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified? 9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 11:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

    16I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'

  • Acts 11:18
    78%

    18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"

  • Acts 10:44-47
    4 verses
    76%

    44While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

    45They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

    46For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

    47"Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"

  • 1 Cor 15:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

    11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

  • Acts 15:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.

    8God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

  • Gal 2:6-9
    4 verses
    75%

    6But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn't show partiality to man)--they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

    7but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

    8(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

    9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

  • Acts 15:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

    11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are."

    12All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

  • Acts 11:1
    73%

    1Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

  • Rom 15:15-18
    4 verses
    73%

    15But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

    16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    17I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

    18For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

  • Acts 11:23
    72%

    23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    72%

    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • Gal 2:14
    72%

    14But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

  • Eph 3:7
    72%

    7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
    72%

    5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

  • Acts 19:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

    3He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

  • 2 Cor 11:7
    72%

    7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

  • Acts 10:29
    71%

    29Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

  • Acts 11:12
    71%

    12The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house.

  • Acts 11:21
    71%

    21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

  • Acts 14:27
    71%

    27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

  • Acts 8:17
    71%

    17Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

  • Acts 14:3
    70%

    3Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

  • Rom 11:13
    70%

    13For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

  • Acts 21:19
    70%

    19When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 13:46
    70%

    46Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

  • Gal 2:11
    70%

    11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

  • Gal 1:24
    70%

    24And they glorified God in me.

  • 1 Tim 1:12
    70%

    12And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

  • Acts 13:48
    70%

    48As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

  • Acts 18:27
    70%

    27When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

  • Acts 22:19
    70%

    19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • Acts 26:19
    70%

    19"Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • Gal 1:16
    70%

    16to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn't immediately confer with flesh and blood,

  • Acts 26:17
    70%

    17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,