Acts 4:19

Peter and John ask the council to judge whether it is right to obey men rather than God. They affirm that God's authority outranks human commands.

Cross-references · 24

• Acts 5:29Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
• Exod 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
• 1 Cor 10:15I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
• 1 Tim 2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
• 1 Kgs 22:14And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.
• John 7:24Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
• Ps 58:1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
• Dan 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
• 2 Chr 26:16–20But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
• Hos 5:11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
• Matt 22:21They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.
• Amos 7:16Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
• 1 Kgs 14:16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 12:30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
• 2 Kgs 16:15And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
• 1 Kgs 21:11And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
• Dan 3:18But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
• Rev 14:9–12And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
• 2 Cor 4:2But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• Rev 13:3–10And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
• Eph 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
• Jas 2:4Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
• Mic 6:16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
• Heb 11:23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

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