Acts 5:39

Gamaliel's Advice

³⁸ And now I say to you, keep away from these men, and let them go, because if the project or this work is from men, it will be overthrown, ³⁹ but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God. ⁴⁰ And they were persuaded by him. And after summoning the apostles, having beat them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

From God

Take Heed

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.

Acts 11:17

If then God gave to them the identical gift as also to us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, but what power was I to hinder God?

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

Exodus 10:3-7

And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says LORD, the God of the Hebrews, How long will thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

2 Samuel 5:2

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou who led out and brought in Israel. And LORD said to thee, Thou shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shall be prince over Israel.

1 Kings 12:24

Thus says LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the sons of Israel. Return every man to his house, for this thing is of me. So they hearkened to the word of LORD, and returned and went their way according to the

2 Kings 19:22

Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [Even] against the Holy One of Israel.

Job 15:25-27

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

Job 34:29

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? [It is] the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

Isaiah 43:13

Yea, since the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

Matthew 16:18

And I also say to thee, that thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Luke 21:15

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

Acts 6:10

And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

Acts 9:5

And he said, Who are thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecute.

Acts 23:9

And there developed a great clamor. And some of the scholars of the Pharisees part having risen, they argued vehemently, saying, We find nothing wrong in this man. But if a spirit spoke to him, or a heavenly agent, we should not fi

1 Corinthians 1:25

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Revelation 17:12-14

And the ten horns that thou saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings one hour with the beast.