Acts 7:26

The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. “Men,” he said, “you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?”

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In The King James Version

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

25He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.

27But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying – “Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

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Cross References

Genesis 45:24So he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, ‘See that you do not quarrel on the journey!’

Psalms 133:1Behold! How good and how pleasant is the dwelling of kindred together!

John 15:17I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.

Philippians 2:1If, then, any encouragement comes through union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any communion with the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,

1 John 3:11For this is the message we heard from the beginning: we are to 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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