for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
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for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
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for I will geve you a mouth and wisdome where agaynste all youre adversarys shall not be able to speake nor resist.
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For I will giue you a mouth and wisdome, where against all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake, nor resist.
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Passages linked to Luke 21:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 1:9 Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
- Ephesians 6:19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
- Luke 12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”
- Acts 6:10 They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.
- Exodus 4:11-12 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
- Colossians 4:3-4 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds, that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
- 2 Timothy 4:16-17 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- Luke 24:45 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.
- Proverbs 2:6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
- James 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
- Acts 4:8-13 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, may it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands here before you whole in him. He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!” Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
- Acts 4:31-33 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
- Acts 26:28 Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
- Acts 2:4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
- Acts 24:25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And ye shall be hated of all men,.... See…
And ye shall be hated of all men,.... See Gill on Mat 10:22. See Gill on Mat 24:9.
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luk 21:18But there shall not art hair of your head perish. That is, without the will of God, as in Mat 10:29 or not one shall perish, but what shall be restored again: or the sense is, that though they should be betrayed by their friends, and hated, and persecuted, and imprisoned by their enemies, yet they should be no losers in the main; all things should work together for their good; and though even they should be put to death, yet that would be to their advantage, since instead of a temporal, troublesome life, they should enjoy an eternal and happy one: for this cannot be understood of entire preservation from all corporeal damages and hurt; seeing it is, before declared, that they should be put into prisons, and some of them put to death; nor of their preservation at the destruction of Jerusalem, for none of them was living at that time, but the Apostle John, and he was not in those parts.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. I will give you a mouth and…
Verse 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdom] στομα, a mouth, must appear plain to every person to be used here for a ready utterance, or eloquence in speaking. They shall have an abundance of wisdom to know what to say; and they shall have an irresistible eloquence to say what they ought.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain I will give, &c. In some parts it is…
I will give, &c. In some parts it is said, that Christ himself will speak by the mouths of his disciples, as in this passage of St. Luke; in other places, as St. Matthew Chap. xvi. that the Father will speak; and St. Matthew Chap. x. that the Spirit of the Father will speak. In these different texts there is no contradiction, but a most perfect harmony. What one of the divine Persons says, all three say; for the voice of the Trinity is only one. (St. Ambrose)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. A mouth to utter and wisdom in the…
15. A mouth to utter and wisdom in the matter of utterance.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. I will give you a mouth] as in…
15. I will give you a mouth] as in Exo_4:11-12; Jer_1:9; Isa_6:6. God, as Milton says, ‘sendeth forth His cherubim with the hallowed fire of His altar to touch the lips of whom He will.’
shall not be able to gainsay] See Act_4:14; Act_6:1 o.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) I will give you a mouth and wisdom.—The…
(15) I will give you a mouth and wisdom.—The promise, even in its form, reminds us of that given to Moses when he drew back from the task of uttering God’s message to His people (Exo_4:15-16). The inward faculty of thought, the outward power of uttering thought in words, should both be given. The words are not without their importance as bearing on the supposed distinction between verbal inspiration and that which is confined to thoughts. So far as it goes, it is against that distinction. And indeed, useful as it may seem in theory, as meeting some of the difficulties, real or supposed, which attach to the theory of verbal inspiration, it seems clear, even on purely psychological grounds, that, as men think through the medium of language, the inspiration which extends to thoughts must extend also, and under the same laws and conditions, to the words in which they are expressed. What those laws and conditions are is a wider question, on which this is not the place to enter. The answer is to be found in a reverential and careful induction from the facts which the phenomena of inspiration present to us.
Adversaries.—Another favourite word of St. Paul’s (1Co_16:9; Php_1:28, et al.), and used by no other writer in the New Testament except St. Luke.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,…
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Instances of the splendid fulfillment of this promise are supplied in the "Acts" report of St. Stephen"s speech, (Ac 7) and St. Paul"s defense spoken before the Roman governor Felix (Ac 25) and before King Agrippa. (Ac 26)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:15 I will give you the right words: God…
21:15 I will give you the right words: God often assured his prophets that he would give them the words to say (Exod 4:12, 15; Deut 18:18; Isa 50:4; 51:16; Jer 1:9). Jesus’ disciples were to prepare themselves to be clear witnesses (see Col 4:5-6; 2 Tim 2:21; 1 Pet 3:15), knowing that the Spirit would help them to respond as powerfully as Jesus had done (Luke 20:20-44).
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