Acts 4:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But we [ourselves] cannot help telling what we have seen and heard.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

Common English Bible

²⁰ As for us, we can’t stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For we are unable to refrain from speaking the things that we have seen and heard."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Acts 4:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:2

The spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was upon my tongue.

Jeremiah 1:7

But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.

Jeremiah 20:9

And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in mine heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 6:11

Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Ezekiel 3:11

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

Amos 3:8

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GODhath spoken, who can but prophesy?

Micah 3:8

But I truly am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgement, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

Numbers 22:38

And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Luke 1:2

even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

Acts 1:22

beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.

Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 18:5

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 2:32

This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Acts 22:15

For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

Acts 3:15

and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

Acts 5:32

And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.