Acts 11:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”

Cross References

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?

Job 40:2

“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Anyone who argues with God must respond.”

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Acts 10:45

The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the gentiles,

Acts 10:47

“Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”

Acts 11:15

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.

Acts 5:39

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God!” They were convinced by him,