Acts 15:8
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
In context
6 So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.
7 After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
8 And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
9 He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
10 Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
Acts 15:8 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.
- KJV King James Version
- And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
- WEB World English Bible
- God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And God, who knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto us;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the heart-knowing God bore them witness, giving [them] the Holy Spirit as to us also,
- WBS Webster Bible
- And God, who knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving to them the Holy Spirit, even as he did to us: