20 (A)But as for you, you meant evil against me; but (B)God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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20 You intended to harm me,(A) but God intended(B) it for good(C) to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.(D)

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11 (A)Now also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye (B)look upon Zion.”

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11 But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat(A) over Zion!”

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12 But they do not know (A)the thoughts of the Lord,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
For He will gather them (B)like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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12 But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(A)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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23 Him, (A)being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, (B)you [a]have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:23 NU omits have taken

23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge;(A) and you, with the help of wicked men,[a] put him to death by nailing him to the cross.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:23 Or of those not having the law (that is, Gentiles)

24 (A)whom God raised up, having [a]loosed the [b]pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

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  1. Acts 2:24 destroyed or abolished
  2. Acts 2:24 Lit. birth pangs

24 But God raised him from the dead,(A) freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.(B)

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