Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And ye also have received a law by the ordinance 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.
Darby Translation
who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept 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.
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 them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered. 53 And ye also have received a law by the ordinance of angels, and have not kept it." 54 When they heard these things, their hearts clave asunder, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
Cross References
Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? The law was added because of transgression - till the seed came, to which the promise was made - and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Hebrews 2:2
For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast - so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward -
Deuteronomy 33:2
saying, "The LORD came from Sinai, and showed his beams from Seir unto them; and appeared gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousands of saints, and in his righthand a law of fire for them.
John 7:19
Did not Moses give you a law? And yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?"
Acts 7:38
This is he that was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. This man received the word of life to give unto us,
Exodus 19:1-20
The third month after the children of Israel were gone out of Egypt: the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
Psalm 68:17
The chariots of God are many thousand times a thousand, the LORD is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai.
Ezekiel 20:18-21
Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,
Romans 2:23-25
Thou abhorrest images: and robbest God of his honour. Thou rejoicest in the law: and through breaking the law dishonourest God.
Galatians 6:13
For they themselves which are circumcised keep not the law: but desire to have you circumcised that they might rejoice in your flesh.