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Act 7:38 — This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

in the church		Exd 19:3-17; Exd 20:19,20; Num 16:3; etc.; Num 16:41,42
with the		Act 7:30,35,53; Isa 63:9; Gal 3:19; Hbr 2:2
who		Exd 21:1; etc.; Deu 5:27-31; Deu 6:1-3; Deu 33:4; Neh 9:13,14; Jhn 1:17
lively		Deu 30:19,20; Deu 32:46,47; Psa 78:5-9; Jhn 6:63; Rom 3:2; Rom 9:4; Rom 10:6-10; Hbr 5:12; 1Pe 4:11

Correlating Passages

in the church

	Exd 19:3	And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
	Exd 19:4	Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
	Exd 19:5	Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:
	Exd 19:6	And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
	Exd 19:7	And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.
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	Exd 20:19	And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
	Exd 20:20	And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
	Num 16:3	And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
	Num 16:41	But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
	Num 16:42	And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.

with the

	Act 7:30	And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
	Act 7:35	This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
	Act 7:53	Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept [it].
	Isa 63:9	In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
	Gal 3:19	Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
	Hbr 2:2	For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

who

	Exd 21:1	Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
	Deu 5:27	Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it].
	Deu 5:28	And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.
	Deu 5:29	O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
	Deu 5:30	Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
	Deu 5:31	But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.
	Deu 6:1	Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:
	Deu 6:2	That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
	Deu 6:3	Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
	Deu 33:4	Moses commanded us a law, [even] the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
	Neh 9:13	Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
	Neh 9:14	And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
	Jhn 1:17	For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

lively

	Deu 30:19	I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
	Deu 30:20	That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, [and] that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he [is] thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
	Deu 32:46	And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
	Deu 32:47	For it [is] not a vain thing for you; because it [is] your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong [your] days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
	Psa 78:5	For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
	Psa 78:6	That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
	Psa 78:7	That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
	Psa 78:8	And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation [that] set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
	Psa 78:9	The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
	Jhn 6:63	It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.
	Rom 3:2	Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
	Rom 9:4	Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
	Rom 10:6	But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:)
	Rom 10:7	Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
	Rom 10:8	But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, [even] in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
	Rom 10:9	That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
	Rom 10:10	For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
	Hbr 5:12	For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
	1Pe 4:11	If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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Scott, Thomas. "Acts 7:38," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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