Acts 4:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 5 Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage, and the people meditate vain things?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But in order that it may not spread further among the people and the nation, let us warn and forbid them with a stern threat to speak any more to anyone in this name [or about this Person].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ To keep it from spreading further among the people, we need to warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ But lest it spread further among the people, let us threaten them not to speak anymore in this name to any man."

Acts 4:17 Cross References

Jeremiah 38:4

2 And Abdemelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremias: Put these old rags and these rent and rotten things under thy arms, and upon the cords: and Jeremias did so.

Amos 2:12

Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing ?

Matthew 27:64

He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid.

Matthew 9:30

8 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.

John 15:21

They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God.

Acts 4:21

9 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all confidence they may speak thy word,

Acts 5:24

2 And we are witnesses of these things and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all that obey him.

Acts 5:28

6 For before these days rose up Theodas, affirming himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all that believed him were scattered, and brought to nothing.

Ephesians 6:9

8 By all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the spirit; and in the same watching with all instance and supplication for all the saints:

1 Thessalonians 1:8

Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

1 Peter 2:23

Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.