Acts 11:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I -- how was I able to withstand God?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 10:47 : 47 Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'
  • Matt 20:14-15 : 14 take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; 15 is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?
  • Acts 5:39 : 39 and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'
  • Acts 10:45 : 45 and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,
  • Acts 11:15 : 15 `And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,
  • Acts 15:8-9 : 8 and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us, 9 and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;
  • Rom 9:15-16 : 15 for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' 16 so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:
  • Rom 9:20-26 : 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus? 21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour? 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us -- 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, 25 as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what `is' not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved, 26 and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye `are' not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
  • Rom 11:34-36 : 34 for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor? 35 or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again? 36 because of Him, and through Him, and to Him `are' the all things; to Him `is' the glory -- to the ages. Amen.
  • Job 9:12-14 : 12 Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?' 13 God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers. 14 How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
  • Job 33:13 : 13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?
  • Job 40:2 : 2 Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
  • Job 40:8-9 : 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous? 9 And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

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    15`And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

    16and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;

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    18And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

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    44While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word,

    45and those of the circumcision believing were astonished -- as many as came with Peter -- because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,

    46for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

    47Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'

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    9for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

    10and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;

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    7and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;

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    6And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

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    8for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

    9and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision `may go',

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    10now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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    15and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

    16for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    17I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,

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    23who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

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    5for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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    7of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

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    7The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you?

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    27and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

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    24and they were glorifying God in me.

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    12And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put `me' to the ministration,

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    27and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,

  • Acts 22:19
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    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

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    19`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

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    17delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,