Acts 10:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Acts 10:34 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.
2 Chronicles 19:7
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Colossians 3:25
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Job 34:19
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 34-43)

We have here Peter’s sermon preached to Cornelius and his friends: that is, an abstract or summary of it; for we have reason to think that he did with many other words testify and exhort to this purport. It is intimated that he expressed himself with a great deal of solemnity and gravity, but with freedom and copiousness, in that phrase, he opened his mouth, and spoke, Acts 10:34. O ye Corinthians…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 34)

34-35. Peter opened his mouth--(See on Mt 5:2). Of a truth I perceive--that is, “I have it now demonstrated before mine eyes.” that God is no respecter of persons--Not, “I see there is no capricious favoritism with God,” for Peter would never imagine such a thing; but (as the next clause shows), “I see that God has respect only to personal character and state in the acceptance of men, national and…