Acts 5:39 - English Standard Version 2016

³⁹ but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to stop or overthrow or destroy them; you might even be found fighting against God!

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

Common English Bible

³⁹ If it originates with God, you won’t be able to stop them. Instead, you would actually find yourselves fighting God!” The council was convinced by his reasoning.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ Yet truly, if it is of God, you will not be able to break it, and perhaps you might be found to have fought against God." And they agreed with him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.

Acts 5:39 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

2 Samuel 5:2

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”

1 Kings 12:24

‘Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the Lord and went home again, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 19:22

“Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—

Proverbs 21:30

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

Isaiah 43:13

Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

Isaiah 45:9

“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Acts 11:17

If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

Acts 23:9

Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”

Acts 6:10

But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Acts 9:5

And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

1 Corinthians 1:25

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?