Acts 4:29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

English Standard Version
And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,

New American Standard Bible
"And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence,

King James Bible
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

International Standard Version
Lord, pay attention to their threats now, and allow your servants to speak your word boldly

American Standard Version
And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all confidence they may speak thy word,

Darby Bible Translation
And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,

Young's Literal Translation
'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,

Cross References

Acts 4:13
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Acts 9:27
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

Acts 9:28
And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

Acts 14:3
Long time therefore stayed they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony to the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

2 Corinthians 3:12
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Philippians 1:14
And many of the brothers in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:23-31 Christ's followers do best in company, provided it is their own company. It encourages God's servants, both in doing work, and suffering work, that they serve the God who made all things, and therefore has the disposal of all events; and the Scriptures must be fulfilled. Jesus was anointed to be a Saviour, therefore it was determined he should be a sacrifice, to make atonement for sin. But sin is not the less evil for God's bringing good out of it. In threatening times, our care should not be so much that troubles may be prevented, as that we may go on with cheerfulness and courage in our work and duty. They do not pray, Lord let us go away from our work, now that it is become dangerous, but, Lord, give us thy grace to go on stedfastly in our work, and not to fear the face of man. Those who desire Divine aid and encouragement, may depend upon having them, and they ought to go forth, and go on, in the strength of the Lord God. God gave a sign of acceptance of their prayers. The place was shaken, that their faith might be established and unshaken. God gave them greater degrees of his Spirit; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, more than ever; by which they were not only encouraged, but enabled to speak the word of God with boldness. When they find the Lord God help them by his Spirit, they know they shall not be confounded, Isa 1.7.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. now, Lord, behold their threatenings—Recognizing in the threatenings of the Sanhedrim a declaration of war by the combined powers of the world against their infant cause, they seek not enthusiastically to hide from themselves its critical position, but calmly ask the Lord of heaven and earth to "look upon their threatenings."

that with all boldness they may speak thy word—Rising above self, they ask only fearless courage to testify for their Master, and divine attestation to their testimony by miracles of healing, &c., in His name.