Acts 7:26

And the next day he came to them, as they were two of them fighting, and would have persuaded them to agree, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye injure one another?

1770 John Worsley 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

25Now he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would give them deliverance by his hand: but they understood not.

27But he, that injured his neighbor, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

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Cross References

John 15:17These commands I give you, that ye should love one another.

Philippians 2:1If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,

1 John 3:11for this is the injunction which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother;

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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