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Acts 7:50 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Didn’t my hand make all these things?’ "
Acts 7:50
Verse in Context
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48 However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
49 ‘heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build me?’ says the Lord. ‘Or what is the place of my rest?
50 Didn’t my hand make all these things?’
51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
52 Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
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Acts 7:1
"The high priest said, “Are these things so?”"
Acts 7:2
"He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,"
Acts 7:3
"and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’"
Acts 7:4
"Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living."
Acts 7:5
"He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child."
Acts 7:6
"God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years."
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