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 Ghost, and began to speak with 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 wholly given to idolatry.

And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, 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 maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will 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 transgression, and to Israel his sin.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

The things

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is 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 Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

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

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them 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

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

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