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 with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him when he saw the city completely given over to idolatry.

And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was impressed by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Behold, I am come unto thee; may I now say something? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Behold, I have received blessing; and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

(The Spirit of the LORD has spoken by me, and his word has been in my tongue.

For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.

But the LORD said unto me, Do not say, I am a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I have worked hard to hold myself in from pouring it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for the husband with the wife shall also be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But he was in my heart as a burning fire and within my bones; I tried to forbear, and I could not.

And go, and enter in among the captives, unto the sons of thy people, and thou shalt speak unto them, and tell them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said, They will not hear, nor forbear.

But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin.

For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!

The things

But ye shall receive the virtue of the Holy Spirit which shall come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

and killed the Author of life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those that persuade him.

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of Judea and in Jerusalem, whom they slew hanging him on a tree.

For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

even as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning taught us and thus were ministers of the word,

how shall we escape, if we belittle such great saving health? Which, having begun to be published by the Lord, has been confirmed unto us by those that heard him,

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life

General references

Then Balaam said unto Balak, Did I not tell thee that all that the LORD says unto me, that I must do?

For there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested; nor secret which shall not be exposed.

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.