Acts 7:26

On the succeeding day, also, he showed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers, why do you do injustice to one another?

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And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

In Context

25and he was supposing his brothers to understand that God gives salvation through his hand; and they did not understand.

27And he who is doing injustice to the neighbor, thrusted him away, saying, Who set you a ruler and a judge over us?

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Cross References

Genesis 45:24And he sends his brothers away, and they go; and he says to them, “Do not be angry in the way.”

Psalms 133:1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. BY DAVID. Behold, how good and how pleasant || The dwelling of brothers—even together!

John 15:17These things I command you, that you love one another;

Philippians 2:1If, then, any exhortation [is] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of [the] Spirit, if any yearnings and mercies,

1 John 3:11because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we may love one another,

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:18-30

Stephen's Address. 17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, 18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. 20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: 21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and… Read the whole commentary →

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