Acts 5:39 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

³⁹ but if it is of God, you cannot put a stop to it. You will only find yourselves fighting against God.”

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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.

Acts 5:39 Tagairtí Cros

Matthew 16:18

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

Luke 21:15

For I will give you a mouth to speak and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to refute or resist.

Acts 11:17

If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, how could I stand in God's way?”

Acts 23:9

Then there arose a great clamor, and the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and argued vehemently, “We find no evil in this man. If a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel, let us not fight against God.”

Acts 6:10

But they were not able to resist 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 you do also.

Acts 9:5

Saul said, “Who are yoʋ, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom yoʋ 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

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?