And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Acts 4:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. American Standard Version (1901) to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. Common English Bible They did what your power and plan had already determined would happen. Catholic Public Domain Version to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. |
And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Who hath directed the spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
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:
that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.
For the Son of man indeed goeth, as it hath been determined: but woe unto that man through whom he is betrayed!
him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
But the things which God foreshewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;
Wherein God, being minded to shew more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath: