Acts 11:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?””
A short, plain-language explanation of Acts 11:17 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?”
King James Version · Public Domain“If then God gave unto them the like gift as he did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 11:17 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 33:13Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Job 40:2“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Matthew 20:14Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
- Acts 5:39But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”
- Acts 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
- Acts 10:47“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”
- Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.
- Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
- Romans 9:15For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).