Acts 14:3 says God bore witness through signs and wonders. Acts 15:8 uses the same phrase for giving the Holy Spirit.

Acts 11:15-17 recounts the same event, saying the Holy Spirit fell 'just as on us at the beginning' — the same logic as Acts 15:8.

Acts 10:45 notes the gift of the Holy Spirit poured out on Gentiles. Acts 15:8 says exactly that God gave them the Spirit.

Acts 10:44 is the moment the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius. Acts 15:8 summarizes that event as God bearing witness by giving the Spirit.

Acts 2:4 is the original filling with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Acts 15:8 says God gave the Spirit to Gentiles 'just as he did to us'.

In Acts 1:24, the disciples pray to the Lord 'who knows the hearts of all' — the same attribute appealed to here when God bears witness to Gentiles.

Acts 11:17 argues God gave the same gift to Gentiles — the same logic used here to justify inclusion.

Acts 10:47 records Gentiles receiving the Spirit just as the apostles did — this is the event referenced here.

Acts 2:39 promises the Spirit to those far off — here that promise is fulfilled as God gives the Spirit to Gentiles.

1 Kings 8:39 acknowledges that God alone knows all hearts — reinforcing the same truth used here to explain God's acceptance of Gentile believers.

Hebrews 2:4 says God bore witness by signs, wonders, and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Acts 15:8 focuses on the Spirit as the witness.

John 2:25 states Jesus knew what was in man — directly matching God's heart-knowing in Acts, showing Jesus shares that divine attribute.

Jeremiah 20:12 describes God as seeing the heart and mind — paralleling Acts 15:8's statement that God knows the heart.

Jeremiah 17:10 says the Lord searches the heart and tests the mind — a clear OT echo of God's heart-knowing attribute.

Jeremiah 11:20 calls God the one who tests the heart and mind — directly aligning with God who knows the heart in Acts.

Psalm 44:21 states God knows the secrets of the heart — directly parallel to God knowing the heart in Acts.

1 Chronicles 29:17 affirms that God tests the heart — closely related to Peter's claim that God knows the heart and validated the Gentiles by giving the Spirit.

1 Chronicles 28:9 states the Lord searches all hearts — the same divine attribute Peter invokes when saying God knew the hearts of the Gentiles.

1 Samuel 16:7 declares that God looks on the heart — the OT foundation for the statement here that God knows the heart and thus accepted the Gentiles.

Romans 10:12 states no distinction between Jew and Greek — here the giving of the Spirit to both demonstrates that truth.

Galatians 3:2 asks how the Spirit was received — by faith, not works — reinforcing that God gave the Spirit to Gentiles without the law.

John 2:24 says Jesus knew all people — a NT example of the same divine knowledge of human hearts that Acts attributes to God.

Revelation 2:23 also says God searches hearts, but for judgment. Acts 15:8 has God knowing hearts to give the Spirit to Gentiles.

Psalm 139:1 says God has searched and known the psalmist — reinforcing the theme of God's intimate knowledge of individuals.

John 5:37 says the Father bore witness about Jesus. Acts 15:8 says God bore witness by giving the Spirit. Both are divine testimony.

In Luke 16:15, God knows hearts in contrast to self-justification — here that same divine knowledge is the basis for accepting Gentile believers.

Psalm 139:2 adds that God discerns thoughts from afar — another facet of God's thorough knowledge of the inner person.

Hebrews 4:13 says nothing is hidden from God's sight — a general statement of omniscience that underlies the specific heart-knowledge in Acts.