Verse 17

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?'

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?