Acts 13:41
Good News Translation
'Look, you scoffers! Be astonished and die! For what I am doing today is something that you will not believe, even when someone explains it to you!'"

New Revised Standard Version
‘Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for in your days I am doing a work, a work that you will never believe, even if someone tells you.’”

Contemporary English Version
"Look, you people who make fun of God! Be amazed and disappear. I will do something today that you won't believe, even if someone tells you about it!"

New American Bible
‘Look on, you scoffers, be amazed and disappear. For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will never believe even if someone tells you.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

ye despisers.

Proverbs 1:24-32 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. . . .

Proverbs 5:12 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 28:14-22 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, who rule over my people that is in Jerusalem. . . .

Luke 16:14 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

Hebrews 10:28-30 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses: . . .

for.

Acts 13:47 For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles: that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth.

Acts 3:23 And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

Acts 6:14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the traditions which Moses delivered unto us.

Acts 22:21 And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off will I send thee.

Isaiah 65:15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Matthew 8:10,11 And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel. . . .

Matthew 21:41-44 They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end and let out his vineyard to other husbandmen that shall render him the fruit in due season. . . .

Matthew 22:7-10 But when the king had heard of it, he was angry: and sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burnt their city. . . .

Matthew 23:34-38 Therefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify: and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city. . . .

Luke 19:42-44 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes. . . .

Luke 21:20-26 And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand. . . .

Romans 11:7-14 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. . . .

Ephesians 3:3-8 How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words: . . .

Colossians 1:26,27 The mystery which hath been hidden from ages and generations, but now is manifested to his saints, . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

Context
In Pisidian Antioch
40Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets: 41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you. 42And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath they would speak unto them these words.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 33:9
But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Habakkuk 1:5
Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

Acts 13:40
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