Acts 13:41
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’””
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“‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I--I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare <FI>it<Fi> to you.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 13:41 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
- Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- Habakkuk 1:5“Look at the nations and observe— be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- Matthew 8:10When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those following Him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
- Matthew 21:41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
- Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- Matthew 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
- Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.
- Luke 19:42and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
- Luke 21:20But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Luke 23:35The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”
- Acts 3:23Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
- Acts 6:14For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 13:47For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
- Acts 22:21Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- Romans 11:7What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
- Ephesians 3:3that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.
- Colossians 1:26the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
- Hebrews 10:28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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