Acts 7:53

You ¹  received the law by decrees given by angels, ²  but you did not obey ³  it.” ⁴ 

biblegateway Act 7:53

you who have received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed it."

biblegateway Act 7:53

you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it."

biblegateway Act 7:53

You deliberately disobeyed God’s law, though you received it from the hands of angels."

biblegateway Act 7:53

You had God's Law handed to you by angels--gift-wrapped!--and you squandered it!"

SABDAweb Act 7:53

You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

bibleoremus Act 7:53

You are the ones that received the law as ordained by angels, and yet you have not kept it."

biblegateway Act 7:53

"who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it ."

biblegateway Act 7:53

You ¹  received the law by decrees given by angels, ²  but you did not obey ³  it.” ⁴ 

¹ tn Grk “whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, who received the law” The two consecutive relative clauses make for awkward English style, so the second was begun as a new sentence with the pronoun “You” supplied in place of the Greek relative pronoun to make a complete sentence in English.

² tn Traditionally, “as ordained by angels,” but εἰς (eis) with the accusative here should be understood as instrumental (a substitute for ἐν [en]); so BDAG 291 s.v. εἰς 9, BDF §206. Thus the phrase literally means “received the law by the decrees [orders] of angels” with the genitive understood as a subjective genitive, that is, the angels gave the decrees.

² sn Decrees given by angels. According to Jewish traditions in the first century, the law of Moses was mediated through angels. See also the note on “angel” in 7:35.

³ tn The Greek word φυλάσσω (fulassw, traditionally translated “keep”) in this context connotes preservation of and devotion to an object as well as obedience.

⁴ tn Or “did not obey it.”