Acts 7:26

And the following day he shewed himself to them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, My friends, ye are brethren; wherefore do ye ill treat one another?

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

25For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand would give them deliverance: but they understood not.

27Then he who did his neighbour wrong thrust him from him, saying, Who appointed thee a ruler and a judge over us?

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Cross References

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

Philippians 2:1IF there be then any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any communion of spirit, if any bowels and compassions,

1 John 3:11For this is the commandment which ye have heard from the beginning, that we should 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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