Acts 15:18
“Knowen vnto God are all his workes frō the beginning of the world.”
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Acts 15:18 Context
16After this I will returne, and wil build againe the Tabernacle of Dauid, which is fallen downe: and I will build againe the ruines thereof, and I will set it vp: 17That the residue of men might seeke after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, vpon whom my Name is called, sayth the Lord, who doeth all these things. 18Knowen vnto God are all his workes frō the beginning of the world. 19Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: 20But that wee write vnto them, that they abstaine from pollutions of Idoles, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
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Other Translations for Acts 15:18
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- King James Version
SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM LONG AGO.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
- Basic English Bible
known from eternity.
- Darby Bible
Known to God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
- Webster's Bible
Says the Lord, who has been making these things known from ages long past.'
- Weymouth Bible
All his works are known to God from eternity.'
- World English Bible
Fro the world, the werk of the Lord is knowun to the Lord.
- Wycliffe Bible
`Known from the ages to God are all His works;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Acts 15:18
15:18 Known unto God are all his works from eternity - Which the apostle infers from the prophecy itself, and the accomplishment of it. And this conversion of the Gentiles being known to him from eternity, we ought not to think a new or strange thing. It is observable, he does not speak of God's works in the natural world, (which had been nothing to his present purpose,) but of his dealing with the children of men. Now he could not know these, without knowing the characters and actions of particular persons, on a correspondence with which the wisdom and goodness of his providential dispensations is founded. For instance, he could not know how he would deal with heathen idolaters (whom he was now calling into his Church) without knowing there would be heathen idolaters: and yet this was a thing purely contingent, a thing as dependent on the freedom of the human mind, as any we can imagine. This text, therefore, among a thousand more, is an unanswerable proof, that God foreknows future contingencies, though there are difficulties relating hereto which men cannot solve.
People's Bible Notes for Acts 15:18
Ac 15:18 Known unto God are all his works. The meaning is that this calling of the Gentiles is a part of the Divine plan known to God from the beginning.