Acts 7:25

American Standard Version (1901)

and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

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  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
  • 1 Sam 19:5 : 5 for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Mark 9:32 : 32 But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 And they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, and they perceived not the things that were said.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith unto the Gentiles.
  • Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and the apostles and the elders, and they rehearsed all things that God had done with them.
  • Acts 15:7 : 7 And when there had been much questioning, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his ministry.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain
  • Col 1:29 : 29 whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 7:23-24
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    23But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

    24And seeing one [of them] suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:

  • Acts 7:26
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    26And the day following he appeared 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?

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

    8And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

  • Gen 42:23
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    23And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him.

  • John 7:5
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    5For even his brethren did not believe on him.

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

    11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.

  • Exod 2:11-14
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    11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

    12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

    13And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

    14And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?

  • Luke 2:50
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    50And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

  • Gen 37:8
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    8And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

  • Gen 37:4-5
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    4And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

    5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

  • Gen 37:18
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    18And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

  • Acts 7:9-10
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    9And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

    10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

    19The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

  • Gen 42:21
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    21And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

  • Acts 7:6
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    6And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

  • John 8:27
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    27They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

  • Ps 78:42
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    42They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

  • Gen 44:7
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    7And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

  • Acts 7:13
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    13And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race became manifest unto Pharaoh.

  • Gen 37:20-21
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    20Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

    21And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

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    4But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure harm befall him.

  • John 10:6
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    6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

  • Gen 42:28
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    28And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God hath done unto us?

  • Gen 43:6
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    6And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

  • Gen 45:24
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    24So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

  • Gen 37:23
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    23And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;