Acts 6:10

New English Translation

Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

Cross References

Job 32:18

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.

Job 32:8

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

Exodus 4:12

So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”

Isaiah 54:17

No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed; you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you. This is what the Lord will do for his servants – I will vindicate them,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 15:20

I will make you as strong as a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will attack you, but they will not be able to overcome you. For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:27

But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Micah 3:8

But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

Luke 1:17

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

Luke 21:15

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

John 7:46

The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

Acts 5:39

but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them, or you may even be found fighting against God.” He convinced them,

Acts 6:11

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, “We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

Acts 6:9

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

Acts 7:51

“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!

1 Corinthians 2:4

My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,