Acts 5:38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So in the present case, I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking is of human origin, it will fail;

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:15

When our enemies heard that their plot was known to us and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:25

I will break the Assyrian in my land and on my mountains trample him under foot; his yoke shall be removed from them and his burden from their shoulders.

Lamentations 3:37

Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?

Matthew 15:13

He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.

Mark 11:30

Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin? Answer me.”

John 11:48

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”

Acts 5:35

Then he said to them, “Fellow Israelites, consider carefully what you propose to do to these men.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”