"Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}." — Acts 7:53

Acts 7:53 · KJV

“Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.”

— Acts 7:53

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Verse 54

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with {their} teeth.

Acts 7 — Context

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers {did}, so {do} ye.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept {it}.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with {their} teeth.

But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Cross References

Hebrews 2:2

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

Galatians 3:19

Wherefore then {serveth} the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; {and it was} ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

Acts 7:38

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and {with} our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Deuteronomy 33:2

And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand {went} a fiery law for them. {a fiery...: Heb. a fire of law}

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law, and {yet} none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Galatians 6:13

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Ezekiel 20:18-21

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Romans 2:23-25

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?