Acts 2:3
They saw tongues like flames of a fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
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cloven.

Acts 2:4, 11
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. . . .

Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Psalm 55:9
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

1 Corinthians 12:10
to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

Revelation 14:6
Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth--to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

like.

Isaiah 6:5
Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts."

Jeremiah 23:29
Is not My word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that smashes a rock?"

Malachi 3:2, 3
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner's fire, like a launderer's soap. . . .

Matthew 3:11
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 24:32
They asked one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?"

James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

Revelation 11:3
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1, 260 days, clothed in sackcloth."

sat.

Acts 1:15
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

Isaiah 11:2, 3
The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. . . .

Matthew 3:15
"Let it be so now, " Jesus replied. "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way." Then John permitted Him.

John 1:32, 33
Then John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

King James Bible
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And tongues, like flames of fire that were divided, appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

International Standard Version
They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated, and one rested on each of them.

NET Bible
And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And tongues like fire that were divided appeared to them, and they sat on each one of them.
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