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Acts 4:25
Acts 4:25 is verse 25 of Acts chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Or child; also in verses 27 and 30
King James Version
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
World English Bible
who by the mouth of your servant David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
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Acts 4:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible
23 On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.
24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
27 In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 1:16“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
Psalms 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
Psalms 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
Psalms 2:5Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:
Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”