Acts 17:26 Cross References - BBE

²⁶ And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,

²⁰ And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.

¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.

⁷ Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story. ⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

²³ Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

⁵ If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

¹⁵ The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

³¹ Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

²¹ Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

²⁷ And as for these two kings, their hearts will be fixed on doing evil and they will say false words at one table; but it will come to nothing: for the end will be at the time fixed.

³⁵ And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.

¹⁰ Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

¹⁸ Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

¹² For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: ¹³ Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken. ¹⁴ But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. ¹⁵ But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men. ¹⁶ And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number. ¹⁷ For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men. ¹⁹ Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.

²² For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

⁴⁷ The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

³ What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;