Acts 14:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and these things saying, scarcely did they restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.

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  • Gen 11:6 : 6 and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
  • Gen 19:9 : 9 And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than `to' them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.
  • Exod 32:21-23 : 21 And Moses saith unto Aaron, `What hath this people done to thee, that thou hast brought in upon it a great sin?' 22 and Aaron saith, `Let not the anger of my lord burn; thou -- thou hast known the people that it `is' in evil; 23 and they say to me, Make for us gods, who go before us, for this Moses -- the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt -- we have not known what hath happened to him;
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee; 17 for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and -- we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.
  • John 6:15 : 15 Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.

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