Acts 7:53 “you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.””

Acts 7:53

you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

World English Bible

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

American Standard Version

ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

Geneva Bible 1599

Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it.

Darby Translation

who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].

Young's Literal Translation

who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep [it].'

Bible in Basic English

You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

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Cross references

“have received”

Hebrews 2:2 Galatians 3:19 Deuteronomy 33:2 Psalm 68:17 Exodus 19:1–20

Hebrews 2:2 · BSB

For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,

Galatians 3:19 · BSB

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Deuteronomy 33:2 · BSB

He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Psalm 68:17 · BSB

The chariots of God are tens of thousands— thousands of thousands are they; the Lord is in His sanctuary as He was at Sinai.

Exodus 19:1–20 · BSB

In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.

“and have”

John 7:19 Galatians 6:13 Ezekiel 20:18–21 Romans 2:23–25

John 7:19 · BSB

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

Galatians 6:13 · BSB

For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Ezekiel 20:18–21 · BSB

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Romans 2:23–25 · BSB

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

Also

Acts 7:38

Acts 7:38 · BSB

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

Read Acts 7