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The Believers’ Prayer

Acts 4:28

In 9 translations

BSB
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
KJV
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
WEB
to do whatever your hand and your counsel foreordained to happen.
ASV
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass.
LSV
to do whatever Your hand and Your counsel determined before to come to pass.
YLT
to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
DBY
to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.
DRC
To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done.
GNV
To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done.

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Where the editions differ

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  • In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include σου (“of You”); SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: βουλὴ. Westcott and Hort (1881) read βουλὴ; Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont add σου.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ποιῆσαι ὅσα ἡ χείρ σου καὶ ἡ βουλὴ προώρισεν γενέσθαι.
RP2018
ποιῆσαι ὅσα ἡ χείρ σου καὶ ἡ βουλή σου προώρισεν γενέσθαι.
TR-Boyd
ποιῆσαι ὅσα ἡ χείρ σου καὶ ἡ βουλή σου προώρισε γενέσθαι.
SCR1894
ποιησαι οσα η χειρ σου και η βουλη σου προωρισεν γενεσθαι

Who and where

◆ Believers pray for boldness

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
  • Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  • Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
  • Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
  • Acts 3:18But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
  • Luke 24:44–46Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.” Then He opened their minds…
  • Acts 13:27–29The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they…
  • Isaiah 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His…
  • Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
  • Job 12:13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
  • Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
  • Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
  • Isaiah 28:29This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
  • Isaiah 40:13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?
  • Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
  • Matthew 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

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