Acts 7:26

'On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

Young's Literal Translation

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 was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

27and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

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Cross References

Genesis 45:24And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, 'Be not angry in the way.'

Psalms 133:1A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren — even together!

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

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

1 John 3:11because this is the message that ye did hear 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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