Acts 11:17 Cross References - WNT

¹⁷ "If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?"

¹⁴ Take your money and go. I choose to give this last comer just as much as I give you. ¹⁵ Have I not a right to do what I choose with my own property? Or are you envious because I am generous?'

³⁹ But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down--lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God."

⁴⁵ And all the Jewish believers who had come with Peter were astonished that on the Gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.

⁴⁷ "Can any one forbid the use of water, and object to these persons being baptized--men who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?"

¹⁵ "And," said Peter, "no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.

⁸ And God, who knows all hearts, gave His testimony in their favour by bestowing the Holy Spirit on them just as He did on us; ⁹ and He made no difference between us and them, in that He cleansed their hearts by their faith.

¹⁵ No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "WHEREVER I SHOW MERCY IT SHALL BE NOTHING BUT MERCY, AND WHEREVER I SHOW COMPASSION IT SHALL BE SIMPLY COMPASSION." ¹⁶ And from this we learn that everything is dependent not on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy. For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,

²⁰ Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil against GOD? SHALL THE THING MOULDED SAY TO HIM WHO MOULDED IT, "WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME THUS?" ²¹ Or has not the potter rightful power over the clay to make out of the same lump one vessel for more honourable and another for less honourable uses? ²² And what if God, while choosing to make manifest the terrors of His anger and to show what is possible with Him, has yet borne with long-forbearing patience with the subjects of His anger who stand ready for destruction, ²³ in order to make known His infinite goodness towards the subjects of His mercy whom He has prepared beforehand for glory, ²⁴ even towards us whom He has called not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles? ²⁵ So also in Hosea He says, "I WILL CALL THAT NATION MY PEOPLE WHICH WAS NOT MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL CALL HER BELOVED WHO WAS NOT BELOVED. ²⁶ AND IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'NO PEOPLE OF MINE ARE YOU,' THERE SHALL THEY BE CALLED SONS OF THE EVERLIVING GOD."

³⁴ "WHO HAS EVER KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR SHARED HIS COUNSELS?" ³⁵ "WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN GOD ANYTHING, SO AS TO RECEIVE PAYMENT IN RETURN?" ³⁶ For the universe owes its origin to Him, was created by Him, and has its aim and purpose in Him. To Him be the glory throughout the Ages! Amen.