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Acts 4:17

But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”

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ASV

But that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

KJV

But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

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19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ἀλλ᾽all᾽ButG235 →
ἵναinathatG2443 →
μὴmēnotG3361 →
ἐπὶepionG1909 →
πλεῖονpleionfurtherG4119 →
διανεμηθῇdianemēthēait may spreadG1268 →
εἰςeisamongG1519 →
τὸνtontheG3588 →
λαόν,laonpeople,G2992 →
ἀπειλησώμεθαapeilēsōmethalet us warnG546 →
αὐτοῖςautoisthemG846 →
μηκέτιmēketino longerG3371 →
λαλεῖνlaleinto speakG2980 →
ἐπὶepiinG1909 →
τῷtō<the>G3588 →
ὀνόματιonomatinameG3686 →
τούτῳtoutōthisG3778 →
μηδενὶmēdenito noG3367 →
ἀνθρώπων.anthrōpōnman.G444 →

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Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”Romans 15:18–22I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,1 Thessalonians 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,Acts 5:24When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.1 Thessalonians 1:8For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.Acts 4:29–30And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,John 11:47–48Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.Psalms 2:1–4Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?Jeremiah 38:4Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”Micah 2:6–7“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”Daniel 2:34–35As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.2 Chronicles 25:15–16Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”Amos 7:12–17And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.Jeremiah 20:1–3When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,Amos 2:12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.Matthew 27:64So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”Jeremiah 29:25–32this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:Romans 10:16–18But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

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