Acts 7:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

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  • Acts 7:35 : 35 This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
  • Luke 12:14 : 14 And he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
  • John 18:36-37 : 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from here. 37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
  • John 19:12-15 : 12 And from then on Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar. 13 When Pilate heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place called the Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 And it was the preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour: and he said to the Jews, Behold your King! 15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
  • Acts 3:13-15 : 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Son Jesus; whom you delivered, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; of which we are witnesses.
  • Acts 4:7 : 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power or by what name have you done this?
  • Acts 4:11-12 : 11 This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone. 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
  • Acts 5:33 : 33 When they heard that, they were furious and took counsel to kill them.
  • Gen 19:19 : 19 Behold now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil overtake me and I die.
  • 1 Sam 25:14-15 : 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed on them. 15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, nor did we miss anything, as long as we were associating with them, when we were in the fields.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He who reproves a scoffer gets to himself shame: and he who rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?
  • Acts 7:39 : 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
  • Acts 7:54 : 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

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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?

  • Acts 7:28
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    28Will you kill me, as you did the Egyptian yesterday?

  • Luke 12:14
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    14And he said to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

  • Exod 2:13-14
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    13And when he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, Why are you hitting your fellow?

    14And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses was afraid and said, Surely this thing is known.

  • Luke 12:57
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    57Yes, and why even of yourselves do you not judge what is right?

  • Acts 7:24
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    24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck the Egyptian.

  • 1 Cor 6:7-8
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    7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

    8No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.

  • Matt 7:1
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    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

  • John 7:24-25
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    24Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.

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  • Jas 4:11-12
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    11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

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  • Luke 10:29
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    29But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

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    4are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • Mark 11:28
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    28And said to him, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority to do these things?

  • John 7:19
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    19Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?

  • Deut 19:19
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    19Then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Prov 3:30
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    30Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Lev 19:15
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    15You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • 1 Cor 5:13
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    13But those who are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

  • 2 Chr 19:6
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    6And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

  • Luke 20:2
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    2And spoke to him, saying, Tell us, by what authority do you do these things? Or who is he who gave you this authority?

  • Amos 5:7
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    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Acts 23:4
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    4And those who stood by said, Do you revile God's high priest?

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who has ordered him his way? or who can say, You have done wrong?

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    1Do any of you, having a matter against someone else, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

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    6You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.

  • John 7:51
    68%

    51Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?

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    14Said to them, You have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people. And behold, I have examined Him in your presence, and have found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse Him.

  • Acts 7:35
    68%

    35This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? the same God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

  • Job 34:17
    68%

    17Shall even he who hates justice govern? And will you condemn Him who is most just?

  • Lev 25:14
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    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Matt 21:23
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    23And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?

  • Exod 23:2
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    2You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to pervert justice by following the majority.

  • Luke 23:2
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    2And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this man misleading the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, claiming that He is Christ, a King.

  • Luke 19:14
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    14But his citizens hated him and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

  • Luke 4:29
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    29and rose up, and drove him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.

  • John 18:31
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    31Then Pilate said to them, Take him and judge him according to your law. Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,

  • Acts 4:19
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    19But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

  • Col 3:25
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    25But he who does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.

  • Acts 24:7
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    7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great force took him away out of our hands,