Acts 4:20

In 9 translations

BSB

For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

KJV

For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

WEB

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

ASV

for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

LSV

for we cannot but speak what we saw and heard.”

YLT

for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

DBY

for as for us we cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard.

DRC

For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

GNV

For we cannot but speake the things which we haue seene and heard.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐ δυνάμεθα γὰρ ἡμεῖς ἃ εἴδαμεν καὶ ἠκούσαμεν μὴ λαλεῖν.

RP2018

Οὐ δυνάμεθα γὰρ ἡμεῖς, ἃ εἴδομεν καὶ ἠκούσαμεν, μὴ λαλεῖν.

TR-Boyd

Οὐ δυνάμεθα γὰρ ἡμεῖς, ἃ εἴδομεν καὶ ἠκούσαμεν, μὴ λαλεῖν.

SCR1894

ου δυναμεθα γαρ ημεις α ειδομεν και ηκουσαμεν μη λαλειν

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• Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
• Acts 22:15You will be His witness to everyone of what you have seen and heard.
• 1 Corinthians 9:16–17Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still…
• 1 John 1:1–3That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. And this is the life that was revealed; we…
• Acts 5:32We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
• Ezekiel 3:11Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”
• Jeremiah 1:17–19Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them. Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar,…
• Acts 10:39–41We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree, God raised Him up on the third day and caused Him to be seen— not by all…
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
• Micah 3:8As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
• Acts 18:5And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
• Jeremiah 1:7But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
• Acts 2:32God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
• Numbers 23:20I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
• Luke 1:2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
• Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

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