Acts 11:17

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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?

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

And God, who knoweth the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it to us;

Take thy due, and go. But I will give to this last even as to thee.

For he saith to Moses, "On whom I have mercy, on him will I have mercy; and on whom I have compassion, on him will I have compassion."

For "who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been made his counselor?"

Can any one forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that makest answer to God? Shall the thing that is wrought say to the workman, Why hast thou made me thus?

Can any one forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?