Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, if God gave them the same grace, as also to us, who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I would be able to prohibit God?” "
— Acts 11:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?”
“If then God gave unto them the like gift as he did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God? ”
“If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?"”
“Therefore if God gave them the same gift as he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?””
“If then God gave them the same grace as to us also who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ: who was I, that could withstand God?”
“If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?”
“Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?”
And he shall speak to you words, by which you shall be saved with your whole house.’
And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as upon us also, in the beginning.
Then I remembered the words of the Lord, just as he himself said: ‘John, indeed, baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
Therefore, if God gave them the same grace, as also to us, who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I would be able to prohibit God?”
Having heard these things, they were silent. And they glorified God, saying: “So has God also given to the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
And some of them, having been dispersed by the persecution that had occurred under Stephen, traveled around, even to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the Word to no one, except to Jews only.
But some of these men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they had entered into Antioch, were speaking also to the Greeks, announcing the Lord Jesus.