Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. New Living Translation And now, O Lord, hear their threats, and give us, your servants, great boldness in preaching your word. English Standard Version And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, Berean Standard Bible And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, Berean Literal Bible And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to Your servants to speak Your word with all boldness, King James Bible And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, New King James Version Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, New American Standard Bible And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant it to Your bond-servants to speak Your word with all confidence, NASB 1995 “And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, NASB 1977 “And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Thy bond-servants may speak Thy word with all confidence, Legacy Standard Bible And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your word with all confidence, Amplified Bible And now, Lord, observe their threats [take them into account] and grant that Your bond-servants may declare Your message [of salvation] with great confidence, Christian Standard Bible And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness, Holman Christian Standard Bible And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness, American Standard Version And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, Aramaic Bible in Plain English “Also now LORD JEHOVAH, behold and see their threats, and grant to your Servants that they would be preaching your word openly.” Contemporary English Version Lord, listen to their threats! We are your servants. So make us brave enough to speak your message. Douay-Rheims Bible And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all confidence they may speak thy word, English Revised Version And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, GOD'S WORD® Translation "Lord, pay attention to their threats now, and allow us to speak your word boldly. Good News Translation And now, Lord, take notice of the threats they have made, and allow us, your servants, to speak your message with all boldness. International Standard Version Lord, pay attention to their threats now, and allow your servants to speak your word boldly Literal Standard Version And now, LORD, look on their threatenings, and grant to Your servants to speak Your word with all freedom, Majority Standard Bible And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, New American Bible And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and enable your servants to speak your word with all boldness, NET Bible And now, Lord, pay attention to their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your message with great courage, New Revised Standard Version And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, New Heart English Bible Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, Webster's Bible Translation And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant to thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, Weymouth New Testament And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage, World English Bible Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness, Young's Literal Translation 'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Believers' Prayer…28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen. 29And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness, 30as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”… Cross References Acts 4:13 When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus. Acts 4:31 After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. Acts 9:27 Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and described how Saul had seen the Lord, who spoke to him on the road to Damascus, and how Saul had spoken boldly in that city in the name of Jesus. Acts 9:28 So Saul stayed with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. Acts 14:3 So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the Lord, who affirmed the message of His grace by enabling them to perform signs and wonders. 2 Corinthians 3:12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. Philippians 1:14 And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear. Treasury of Scripture And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant to your servants, that with all boldness they may speak your word, behold. Acts 4:17,18,21 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name… Isaiah 37:17-20 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God… Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? that. Acts 4:13,31 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus… Acts 9:27 But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. Jump to Previous Boldness Bond-Servants Confidence Consider Courage Cruel Enable Fear Fearless Freedom Grant Great Message Note Power Preachers Proclaim Servants Speak Threatenings Threats Word WordsJump to Next Boldness Bond-Servants Confidence Consider Courage Cruel Enable Fear Fearless Freedom Grant Great Message Note Power Preachers Proclaim Servants Speak Threatenings Threats Word WordsActs 4 1. The rulers of the Jews, offended with Peter's sermon,3. imprison him and John. 5. After, upon examination 8. Peter boldly avouching the lame man to be healed by the name of Jesus, 11. and that only by the same Jesus we must be eternally saved, 13. they threaten him and John to preach no more in that name, 23. whereupon the church flees to prayer. 31. And God, by moving the place where they were assembled, testifies that he heard their prayer; 34. confirming the church with the gift of the Holy Spirit, and with mutual love and charity. (29) And now, Lord, behold their threatenings.--The context shows that the prayer of the Church is addressed to the Father. The Apostles, who had shown "boldness of speech" (Acts 4:13), pray, as conscious of their natural weakness, for a yet further bestowal of that gift, as being now more than ever needed, both for themselves and the whole community.Verse 29. - Look upon for behold, A.V.; to speak thy word with all boldness for that with all boldness they may speak thy word, A.V. Lord. This time Κύριε (Kyrie), the word in the LXX. for Jehovah, and the special designation of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36, etc.), but here applied to God the Father. Look upon; a more forcible rendering than the A.V. Look upon, for the purpose of frustrating and punishing. The only other place in the New Testament where the word (ἑπείδειν) occurs is in Luke 1:25, where the Lord "looked upon" Elisabeth to confer a blessing upon her. In 2 Chronicles 24:22, "The Lord look upon it and require it," the LXX have the simple verb ἴδοι instead of ἐπίδοι. It is beautiful to notice how, in the heat of the unjust persecutions, the Church hands over her quarrel to her Lord, and is only careful that she be not stopped in her work by the threatenings of her enemies. To speak thy word with all boldness (for the word "boldness," see ver. 13, note). Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Andκαὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. now, νῦν (nyn) Adverb Strong's 3568: A primary particle of present time; 'now'; also as noun or adjective present or immediate. Lord, Κύριε (Kyrie) Noun - Vocative Masculine Singular Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master. consider ἔπιδε (epide) Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1896: To looked upon, regarded. And other moods and persons of the same tense; from epi and eido; to regard. their αὐτῶν (autōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. threats, ἀπειλὰς (apeilas) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural Strong's 547: A threatening, threat. From apeileo; a menace. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. enable δὸς (dos) Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give. Your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. servants δούλοις (doulois) Noun - Dative Masculine Plural Strong's 1401: (a) (as adj.) enslaved, (b) (as noun) a (male) slave. From deo; a slave. to speak λαλεῖν (lalein) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words. Your σου (sou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. word λόγον (logon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression. with μετὰ (meta) Preposition Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives. complete πάσης (pasēs) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. boldness, παρρησίας (parrēsias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3954: From pas and a derivative of rheo; all out-spokenness, i.e. Frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication, assurance. Links Acts 4:29 NIVActs 4:29 NLT Acts 4:29 ESV Acts 4:29 NASB Acts 4:29 KJV Acts 4:29 BibleApps.com Acts 4:29 Biblia Paralela Acts 4:29 Chinese Bible Acts 4:29 French Bible Acts 4:29 Catholic Bible NT Apostles: Acts 4:29 Now Lord look at their threats (Acts of the Apostles Ac) |
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