Acts 5:29

The Passion Translation

Peter and the apostles replied, “We must listen to and obey God more than pleasing religious leaders.

Cross References

Acts 4:19

But Peter and John replied, “You can judge for yourselves—is it better to listen to you or to God?

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife instead of me, and you ate from the forbidden tree when I had commanded you not to, the ground will be cursed because of you. You will eat of it through painful toil all the days of your life.

Jeremiah 26:12

Then Jeremiah defended himself before all the leaders and the people, saying, “Yahweh himself sent me to prophesy this message you have heard me speak against this temple and this city.

Daniel 6:13

They then told the king, “We discovered that Daniel, one of the foreign Jewish exiles, pays no heed to you, O king, and ignores the decree you have signed. For he prays to his God three times a day.”