Verse 17

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?”

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?’