Acts 4:20

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Summary

Acts 4:20

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

We cannot

The things

General references

Numbers 23:26

Mark 4:22

1 Corinthians 14:32

Bible References

We cannot

And they were all filled of Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to declare.

But while Paul waited for them in Athens, his spirit was aroused within him, seeing the city being completely idolatrous.

And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being held by the Spirit, fully testifying to the Jews, Jesus the Christ.

And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to thee. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

The Spirit of LORD spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

for I am full of words. The spirit within me compels me.

But LORD said to me, Say not, I am a child. For to whomever I shall send thee thou shall go, and whatever I shall command thee thou shall speak.

Therefore I am full of the wrath of LORD. I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the sons in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is

And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.

And go, get thee to those of the captivity, to the sons of thy people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says lord LORD, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news.

The things

But ye will receive the power of the Holy Spirit that comes upon you. And ye will be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and as far as of the extremity of the earth.

And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

And we are his witnesses of these things, and also the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.

And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, whom also they killed, having hung on a tree.

because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard.

just as they delivered them to us, who became from the beginning eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

how will we escape, having neglected so great a salvation? Which first, having taken to be spoken by the Lord, was verified for us by those who heard;

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

General references

But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that LORD speaks, that I must do?

For there is not anything hid, except that it may be revealed, nor become secret, but that it may come to be visible.

And the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,