Acts 13:41 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴¹ ‘Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for in your days I am doing a work, a work that you will never believe, even if someone tells you.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴¹ Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴¹ Look, you scoffers and scorners, and marvel and perish and vanish away; for I am doing a deed in your days, a deed which you will never have confidence in or believe, [even] if someone [clearly describing it in detail] declares it to you. [Hab. 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴¹ Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.

Common English Bible

⁴¹ “Look, you scoffers”, “marvel and die”. “I’m going to do work in your day —” “a work you won’t believe” “even if someone told you”.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴¹ 'You despisers! Look, and wonder, and be scattered! For I am working a deed in your days, a deed which you would not believe, even if someone were to explain it to you.' "

Acts 13:41 Cross References

Habakkuk 1:5

Look at the nations and see! Be astonished! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days that you would not believe if you were told.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has overtaken them at last.

Acts 13:47

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you to be a light for the gentiles, so that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

Acts 22:21

Then he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the gentiles.’ ”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Isaiah 65:15

You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but to his servants he will give a different name.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Acts 3:23

And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly rooted out of the people.’

Acts 6:14

for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed on to us.”

Luke 23:35

And the people stood by watching, but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!”

Ezekiel 33:9

But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.