Acts 7:26

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`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?

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  • Exod 2:13-15 : 13 And he goeth out on the second day, and lo, two men, Hebrews, striving! and he saith to the wrong-doer, `Why dost thou smite thy neighbour?' 14 and he saith, `Who set thee for a head and a judge over us? to slay me art thou saying `it', as thou hast slain the Egyptian?' and Moses feareth, and saith, `Surely the thing hath been known.' 15 And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.
  • Ps 133:1 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren -- even together!
  • Prov 18:19 : 19 A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.
  • John 15:17-18 : 17 `These things I command you, that ye love one another; 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers! 7 Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded? 8 but ye -- ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these -- brethren!
  • Phil 2:1 : 1 If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
  • 1 John 3:11-15 : 11 because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another, 12 not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. 15 Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,
  • Gen 13:8 : 8 And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we `are' men -- brethren.
  • Gen 45:24 : 24 And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'

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