As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Acts 4:28 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. American Standard Version (1901) to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. Common English Bible They did what your power and plan had already determined would happen. Catholic Public Domain Version to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. |
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
The LORD of Armies has sworn, saying, *Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
This also comes forth from the LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or has taught him as his counselor?
declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
Who say, *Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisra'el draw near and come, that we may know it!*
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.*
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!*
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Messiah should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;