Acts 7:26

On the following day, he appeared to them fighting, and undertook to reduce them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren; therefore do not injure one another.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

25And he supposed that his brethren would understand that God through his hand is giving them salvation: but they did not recognize it.

27And the one injuring his neighbor thrust him away, saying, Who appointeth you a leader and a judge over us?

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Cross References

John 15:17I command these things unto you, that you must love one another with divine love.

Philippians 2:1If then there is any consolation in Christ, if there is any comfort of divine love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercies,

1 John 3:11Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must 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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