Acts 5:38

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Refrain

Acts 5:35

John 11:48

For

General references

Jeremiah 26:16

Matthew 7:20

Bible References

Refrain

And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

For

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

The Lord

nullifies the counsel of the nations;

He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

“Be broken, O peoples, and be

shattered;

And give ear, all remote places of the earth.
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered;
Gird yourselves, yet be shattered.

to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;

General references

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

So then, you will know them by their fruits.