Acts 4:28

Modern English Version

to do what Your hand and Your counsel had foreordained to be done.

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

But as for you, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many lives.

Job 12:13

“With Him are wisdom and strength; He has counsel and understanding.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; with the remainder of wrath You will gird Yourself.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom or understanding or counsel can stand against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of Hosts has sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 28:29

This also comes from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard? Long ago I have done it, from ancient times I have formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 40:13

Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has taught Him?

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My good pleasure,”

Isaiah 5:19

who say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; He has put him to grief. If he made himself as an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the good pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man goes as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26:54

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

Luke 22:22

Indeed, the Son of Man goes as it has been determined. But woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!”

Acts 2:23

You have taken Him, who was handed over to you by the ordained counsel and foreknowledge of God, and by lawless hands have crucified and killed Him,

Acts 3:18

But what God foretold through all the prophets, that His Christ should suffer, He thus fulfilled.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him also we have received an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will,

Hebrews 6:17

So God, wanting to show more abundantly the immutability of His counsel to the heirs of promise, confirmed it by an oath.