Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Acts 5:17, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blasphem…
- Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
- Acts 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city …
- 1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- John 11:47
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
- Matthew 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
- John 12:10
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
- Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
- 1 Samuel 18:12
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
More to meet God in Acts
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.