Acts 4:25

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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KJV

King James Version

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

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WEB

World English Bible

who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

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ASV

American Standard Version

who by the Holy Spirit, [by] the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

having said by [the] Holy Spirit [through the] mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why did the nations rage and [the] peoples devise vain things?

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Acts 4

²³ On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

²⁴ When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

²⁵ You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

²⁶ The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

²⁷ In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

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