Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it.
New American Standard Bible
you who received the law as
King James Version
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Holman Bible
You received the law under the direction of angels
International Standard Version
You received the Law as ordained by angels, and yet you haven't obeyed it!"
A Conservative Version
who received the law at directions of heavenly agents, and did not keep it.
American Standard Version
ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.
Amplified
you who received the law as ordained and delivered to you by angels, and yet you did not obey it!”
An Understandable Version
You received the law that was ordained through [the medium of] angels [See Gal. 3:19] and yet have not obeyed its requirements."
Anderson New Testament
who received the law by the appointment of angels, and have not kepi, it.
Bible in Basic English
You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.
Common New Testament
you who received the law as delivered by angels, and yet did not keep it."
Daniel Mace New Testament
you, I say, who received the law by the administration of angels, but have not however observ'd it.
Godbey New Testament
who received the law in the administrations of angels, and did not keep it.
John Wesley New Testament
and have not kept it.
Julia Smith Translation
Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not.
King James 2000
Who have received the law as delivered by angels, and have not kept it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[you] who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed [it]!"
Modern King James verseion
who received the Law through disposition of angels, and did not keep it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And ye also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it."
NET Bible
You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it."
New Heart English Bible
You received the Law as it was ordained by angels, and did not keep it."
Noyes New Testament
ye who received the Law as ordained through angels, and did not keep it.
Sawyer New Testament
who have received the law by orders of angels and have not kept it.
The Emphasized Bible
Who, indeed, received the law through ranks of messengers, - and guarded it not.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
who have received the law through arrangements of angels, yet have not observed it.
Twentieth Century New Testament
You who received the Law as transmitted by angels and yet failed to keep it."
Webster
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
Weymouth New Testament
you who received the Law given through angels, and yet have not obeyed it."
Williams New Testament
you who received the law by order of the angels, and yet you did not obey it!"
World English Bible
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!"
Worrell New Testament
who, indeed, received the law as the ministrations of angels, and did not keep it."
Worsley New Testament
who received the law by the ministration of angels, and yet have not kept it.
Youngs Literal Translation
who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it.'
Themes
Angel (a spirit) » Functions of » Law given by
Angels » The law given by the ministration of
Court » Accused spoke in his own defense
Law » Received by the disposition of angels
The law of God » Given » Through the ministration of angels
the Law of moses » Given » By disposition of angels
Topics
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References
Word Count of 34 Translations in Acts 7:53
Verse Info
Context Readings
Resisting The Holy Spirit
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers! 53 who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it. 54 And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.
Cross References
Galatians 3:19
Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.
Hebrews 2:2
For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,
Deuteronomy 33:2
And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose up from Seir unto them; He shone forth from mount Paran, And he came from the myriads of the sanctuary; From his right hand went forth a law of fire for them.
John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
Acts 7:38
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
Exodus 19:1-20
In the third month after the departure of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai:
Psalm 68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.
Ezekiel 20:18-21
And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Romans 2:23-25
thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?
Galatians 6:13
For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.