Acts 4:19
Good News Translation
But Peter and John answered them, "You yourselves judge which is right in God's sight--to obey you or to obey God.

New Revised Standard Version
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in God’s sight to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge;

Contemporary English Version
Peter and John answered, "Do you think God wants us to obey you or to obey him?

New American Bible
Peter and John, however, said to them in reply, “Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to obey you rather than God, you be the judges.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye.

Whether.

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

to hearken.

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Exodus 1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.

1 Kings 12:30 And this thing became an occasion of sin: for the people went to adore the calf as far as Dan.

1 Kings 14:16 And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 21:11 And the men of his city, the ancients and nobles, that dwelt with him in the city, did as Jezabel had commanded them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent to them;

1 Kings 22:14 But Micheas said to him: As the Lord liveth, whatsoever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

2 Kings 16:15 And king Achaz commanded Urias, the priest, saying: Upon the great altar offer the morning holocaust, and the evening sacrifice, and the king's holocaust, and his sacrifice, and the holocaust of the whole people of the land, and their sacrifices, and their libations: and all the blood of the holocaust, and all the blood of the victim, thou shalt pour out upon it: but the altar of brass shall be ready at my pleasure.

2 Chronicles 26:16-20 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense. . . .

Daniel 3:18 But if he will not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not worship thy gods, nor adore the golden statue which thou hast set up.

Daniel 6:10 Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Amos 7:16 And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

Matthew 22:21 They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's.

Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king's edict.

Revelation 13:3-10 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast. . . .

Revelation 14:9-12 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and his image and receive his character in his forehead or in his hand, . . .

judge.

Psalm 58:1 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. [2] If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.

John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.

1 Corinthians 10:15 I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

James 2:4 Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?

Context
The Name Forbidden
18And calling them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just, in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye. 20For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 26:12
Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes, and to all the people, saying: The Lord sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city all the words that you have heard.

Luke 22:8
And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the pasch, that we may eat.

Acts 4:13
Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 5:28
Saying: Commanding, we commanded you that you should not teach in this name. And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine: and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Acts 4:18
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