Acts 7:53

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Summary

Acts 7:53

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

Have received

And have

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Bible References

Have received

He said,
“The Lord came from Sinai,

And dawned on them from Seir;

He shone forth from Mount Paran,

And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones;

At His right hand there was flashing lightning for them.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;

The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made.

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just

penalty,

And have

“I said to their

children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

“Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

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Then God spoke all these words, saying,

Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have forsaken Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also.

Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;