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Acts 7:53 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!” "

Acts 7:53

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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.

53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

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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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