Acts 11:17
Good News Translation
It is clear that God gave those Gentiles the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; who was I, then, to try to stop God!"

New Revised Standard Version
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?”

Contemporary English Version
God gave those Gentiles the same gift that he gave us when we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So how could I have gone against God?

New American Bible
If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?

as God.

Acts 11:15 And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning.

Acts 15:8,9 And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us: . . .

Matthew 20:14,15 Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. . . .

Romans 9:15,16,23,24 For he saith to Moses: I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will shew mercy to whom I will shew mercy. . . .

Romans 11:34-36 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? . . .

what.

Acts 10:47 Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?

Job 9:12-14 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? . . .

Job 33:13 Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?

Job 40:2,8,9 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him. . . .

Daniel 4:35 0

Romans 9:20-26 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus? . . .

Context
Peter's Report at Jerusalem
16And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that he said: John indeed baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God? 18Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.…
Cross References
Acts 5:39
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 10:45
And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

Acts 10:47
Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?

Acts 11:16
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