Acts 7:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

For he supposed his brothers would understand that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.

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  • 1 Sam 14:45 : 45 But the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has brought this great deliverance in Israel? Far be it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today." So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
  • 1 Sam 19:5 : 5 For he put his life in his hand, and killed the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel; you saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
  • 2 Kgs 5:1 : 1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  • Ps 106:7 : 7 Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Mark 9:32 : 32 But they did not understand this saying and were afraid to ask him.
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did 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 hidden from them, nor did they know the things which were spoken.
  • Acts 14:27 : 27 And when they had arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
  • Acts 15:4 : 4 And when they came to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
  • Acts 15:7 : 7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up and said to them, Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
  • Acts 21:19 : 19 And when he had greeted them, he declared in detail what things God had done among the Gentiles by his ministry.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in making the Gentiles obedient by word and deed,
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are workers together with God: you are God's field, you are God's building.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in 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 We then, as workers together with Him, urge you also not to receive the grace of God in vain.
  • Col 1:29 : 29 To this end I also labor, striving according to his working, which works mightily in me.

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    23And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

    24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

  • Acts 7:26
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    26And the next day he showed himself to them as they were quarreling, and would have set them at peace, saying, Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong one another?

  • Gen 42:7-8
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    7And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

    8And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

  • Gen 42:23
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    23And they did not know that Joseph understood them; for he spoke to them by an interpreter.

  • Gen 37:27
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    5For neither did his brothers believe in him.

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    10And he told it to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?

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    11And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

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    15And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?

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    50And they did not understand the statement which he spoke to them.

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    8And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words.

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    4And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

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

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

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18Until another king arose who did not know Joseph.

    19This king dealt shrewdly with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, forcing them to expose their infants so that they might not live.

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    21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

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    6And God spoke in this way, that his descendants would dwell in a strange land, and that they would bring them into bondage, and treat them poorly for four hundred years.

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    13And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers; and Joseph's family was made known to Pharaoh.

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    20Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

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    24So he sent his brothers away, and they departed; and he said to them, See that you do not quarrel on the way.

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    23And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;