And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.
Acts 4:28 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 To do what thy hands and thy counsel predestinated to be. 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. |
And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.
For the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath thou wilt gird up.
Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand:
Also this shall come forth from Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful of counsel and great of understanding.
Didst thou not hear to remoteness I did it? from days of old and I formed it? now did I bring it and thou shalt be to lay waste fortified cities into straits.
Who measured the spirit of Jehovah? and will a man of his counsel make him to know?
Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:
Saying, He shall hasten, he shall urge on his work, so that we shall see: and the counsel of the holy one of Israel shall draw near and come and we shall know.
And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
Truly the Son of man retires as has been written concerning him; and woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up! it was good for him if that man had not been born.
And truly the Son of man goes according to that determined: but woe to that man by whom he is delivered up!
This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:
But God, announced these things beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so completed.
In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:
In which God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of the promise the firmness of his counsel, he intervened by an oath: