Acts 5:38

New International Version

Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:15

When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:25

I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

Lamentations 3:37

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

Matthew 15:13

He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

Mark 11:30

John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!”

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

Acts 5:35

Then he addressed the Sanhedrin: “Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”;