Acts 5:39 - New Revised Standard Version

³⁹ but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them—in that case you may even be found fighting against God!” They were convinced by him,

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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, “The thing comes from the Lord; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.

2 Samuel 5:2

For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The Lord said to you: It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.”

1 Kings 12:24

“Thus says the Lord, You shall not go up or fight against your kindred the people of Israel. Let everyone go home, for this thing is from me.” So they heeded 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 haughtily lifted your eyes? 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 an individual?—

Proverbs 21:30

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

Isaiah 43:13

I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is no one who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?

Isaiah 45:9

Woe to you who strive with your Maker, earthen vessels with the potter! Does the clay say to the one who fashions 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 purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does what he wills with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. There is no one who can stay his hand or say to him, “What are you doing?”

Matthew 16:18

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

Luke 21:15

for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

Acts 11:17

If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?”

Acts 23:9

Then a great clamor arose, and certain scribes of the Pharisees' group stood up and contended, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

Acts 6:10

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

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Acts 9:5

He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

1 Corinthians 1:25

For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?