Acts 7:25

Geneva Bible (1560)

For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance: but they vnderstoode it not.

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  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 And the people said vnto Saul, Shall Ionathan die, who hath so mightily deliuered Israel? God forbid. As the Lord liueth, there shall not one heare of his head fall to the ground: for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people deliuered Ionathan that he dyed not.
  • 1 Sam 19:5 : 5 For he did put his life in daunger, and slew the Philistim, and the Lord wrought a great saluation for al Israel: thou sawest it, and thou reioycedst: wherefore then wilt thou sinne against innocent blood, and slay Dauid without a cause?
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now was there one Naaman captaine of the hoste of the King of Aram, a great man, and honourable in the sight of his lorde, because that by him the Lorde had deliuered the Aramites. He also was a mightie man and valiant, but a leper.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our fathers vnderstoode not thy wonders in Egypt, neither remembred they the multitude of thy mercies, but rebelled at the Sea, euen at the red sea.
  • Mark 9:32 : 32 But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afraide to aske him.
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 But they vnderstood none of these things, and this saying was hidde from them, neither perceiued they the things, which were spoken.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they were come & had gathered the Church together, they rehearsed all the things that God had done by them, and howe he had opened the doore of faith vnto the Gentiles.
  • Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they were come to Hierusalem, they were receiued of the Church, and of the Apostles and Elders, and they declared what things God had done by them.
  • Acts 15:7 : 7 And when there had bene great disputation, Peter rose vp, and said vnto them, Ye men and brethren, ye know that a good while ago, among vs God chose out me, that the Gentiles by my mouth should heare the worde of the Gospel, and beleeue.
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had embraced them, hee tolde by order all things, that God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministration.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I dare not speake of any thing, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in worde and deede,
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we together are Gods labourers: yee are Gods husbandrie, and Gods building.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am that I am: and his grace which is in me, was not in vaine: but I laboured more aboundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 So we therefore as workers together beseech you, that ye receiue not the grace of God in vaine.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.

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    23Nowe when he was full fourtie yeere olde, it came into his heart to visite his brethren, the children of Israel.

    24And whe he saw one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, & auenged his quarell that had the harme done to him, and smote the Egyptian.

  • Acts 7:26
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    26And the next day, he shewed himselfe vnto them as they stroue, and woulde haue set them at one againe, saying, Syrs, ye are brethren: why doe ye wrong one to another?

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7And when Ioseph sawe his brethren, hee knewe them, and made himselfe straunge toward them, and spake to them roughly, and saide vnto them, Whence come yee? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to bye vitaile.

    8(Now Ioseph knewe his brethren, but they knew not him.

  • Gen 42:23
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    23(And they were not aware that Ioseph vnderstoode them: for he spake vnto them by an interpreter.)

  • Gen 37:27
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    27Come and let vs sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our handes be vpon him: for he is our brother and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed.

  • John 7:5
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    5For as yet his brethren beleeued not in him.

  • Gen 37:10-11
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    10Then he tolde it vnto his father and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him, and saide vnto him, What is this dreame, which thou hast dreamed? Shal I, and thy mother, & thy brethren come in deede & fall on the ground before thee?

    11And his brethren enuied him, but his father noted the saying.

  • Exod 2:11-14
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    11And in those dayes, when Moses was growen, he went forth vnto his brethren, & looked on their burdens: also he sawe an Egyptian smiting an Ebrewe one of his brethren.

    12And he looked rounde about, and when he sawe no man, hee slewe the Egyptian, and hid him in the sande.

    13Againe he came forth the second day, and behold, two Ebrewes stroue: and he said vnto him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellowe?

    14And hee answered, Who made thee a man of authoritie, and a iudge ouer vs? Thinkest thou to kill mee, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then Moses feared and sayde, Certainly this thing is knowen.

  • Gen 44:15
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    15Then Ioseph sayd vnto them, What acte is this, which ye haue done? know ye not that such a man as I, can deuine and prophecie?

  • Luke 2:50
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    50But they vnderstoode not the word that he spake to them.

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    8Then his brethren saide to him, What, shalt thou reigne ouer vs, and rule vs? or shalt thou haue altogether dominion ouer vs? And they hated him so much the more, for his dreames, and for his wordes.

  • Gen 37:4-5
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    4So when his brethren sawe that their father loued him more then all his brethren, then they hated him, and could not speake peaceably vnto him.

    5And Ioseph dreamed a dreame, and told his brethren, who hated him so much the more.

  • Gen 37:18
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    18And when they sawe him a farre off, euen before he came at them, they conspired against him for to slay him.

  • Acts 7:9-10
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    9And the Patriarkes moued with enuie, solde Ioseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

    10And deliuered him out of all his afflictions, and gaue him fauour and wisdome in the sight of Pharao King of Egypt, who made him gouernour ouer Egypt, and ouer his whole house.

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18Till another King arose, which knewe not Ioseph.

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    21And they said one to another, We haue verily sinned against our brother, in that we sawe the anguish of his soule, when he besought vs, and we would not heare him: therefore is this trouble come vpon vs.

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    6But God spake thus, that his seede should be a soiourner in a strange land: and that they should keepe it in bondage, and entreate it euill foure hundreth yeeres.

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    27They vnderstoode not that hee spake to them of the Father.

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    7And they answered him, Wherefore sayeth my lorde such wordes? God forbid that thy seruants should do such a thing.

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    13And at the second time, Ioseph was knowen of his brethren, and Iosephs kindred was made knowen vnto Pharao.

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    20Come now therefore, and let vs slay him, and cast him into some pitte, and wee will say, A wicked beast hath deuoured him: then wee shall see, what will come of his dreames.

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    4But Beniamin Iosephs brother woulde not Iaakob send with his brethren: for he saide, Least death should befall him.

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    6And Israel sayd, Wherefore delt ye so euill with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no?

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    24So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he sayde vnto them, Fall not out by the way.

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    23Now when Ioseph was come vnto his brethren, they stript Ioseph out of his coate, his particoloured coate that was vpon him.