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Acts 7:1 (show verse)

And the high priest said, Are these things then so?

Acts 7:2 (show verse)

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Acts 7:3 (show verse)

and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

Acts 7:4 (show verse)

Then going out of the land of the Chaldeans he dwelt in Charran, and thence, after his father died, he removed him into this land in which ye now dwell.

Acts 7:5 (show verse)

And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even what his foot could stand on; and promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he had no child.

Acts 7:6 (show verse)

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

Acts 7:7 (show verse)

and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

Acts 7:8 (show verse)

And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 7:9 (show verse)

And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,

Acts 7:10 (show verse)

and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house.

Acts 7:11 (show verse)

But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

Acts 7:12 (show verse)

But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;

Acts 7:13 (show verse)

and the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.

Acts 7:14 (show verse)

And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Acts 7:15 (show verse)

And Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers,

Acts 7:16 (show verse)

and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

Acts 7:17 (show verse)

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

Acts 7:18 (show verse)

until another king over Egypt arose who did not know Joseph.

Acts 7:19 (show verse)

He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

Acts 7:20 (show verse)

In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.

Acts 7:21 (show verse)

And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.

Acts 7:22 (show verse)

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

Acts 7:23 (show verse)

And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;

Acts 7:24 (show verse)

and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended him, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.

Acts 7:25 (show verse)

For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not.

Acts 7:26 (show verse)

And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

Acts 7:27 (show verse)

But he that was wronging his neighbour thrust him away, saying, Who established thee ruler and judge over us?

Acts 7:28 (show verse)

Dost thou wish to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian yesterday?

Acts 7:29 (show verse)

And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

Acts 7:30 (show verse)

And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.

Acts 7:31 (show verse)

And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of the Lord,

Acts 7:32 (show verse)

I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. And Moses trembled, and durst not consider it.

Acts 7:33 (show verse)

And the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place on which thou standest is holy ground.

Acts 7:34 (show verse)

I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

Acts 7:35 (show verse)

This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Acts 7:36 (show verse)

He led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 7:37 (show verse)

This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me him shall ye hear.

Acts 7:38 (show verse)

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

Acts 7:39 (show verse)

to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

Acts 7:40 (show verse)

saying to Aaron, Make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

Acts 7:41 (show verse)

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

Acts 7:42 (show verse)

But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:43 (show verse)

Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

Acts 7:44 (show verse)

Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;

Acts 7:45 (show verse)

which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of the lands of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

Acts 7:46 (show verse)

who found favour before God, and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

Acts 7:47 (show verse)

but Solomon built him a house.

Acts 7:48 (show verse)

But the Most High dwells not in places made with hands; as says the prophet,

Acts 7:49 (show verse)

The heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord, or where is the place of my rest?

Acts 7:50 (show verse)

has not my hand made all these things?

Acts 7:51 (show verse)

O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, ye also.
holy Boldness » Exemplified » Stephen
Character » Of the wicked » Stiff-necked
Character of the wicked » Uncircumcised in heart
Character of the wicked » Stiff-necked
Courage » Examples of » Christ
Courageous reformers » Stephen before the council
Court » Accused spoke in his own defense
ears » Of the wicked » Uncircumcised
Government » Mosaic » Constitutes, with priests and scribes, a court for the trial of both civil and ecclesiastical causes
character of the unrenewed Heart » Uncircumcised
the personality of Holy Spirit » He can be resisted
Holy spirit » Believers in the early church baptized with » The sin against
Holy spirit » Sin against
Jews, the » National character of » Stubborn and stiffnecked
Leaders » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Stephen before the council
Offences against the holy ghost » Exhibited in » Resisting him
Select readings » Stephen's defense
Courageous reformers » Rebuke sinful rulers » Stephen before the council
Religious » Reformers courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Stephen before the council
Religious » Courageous reformers, rebuke sinful rulers » Stephen before the council
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Stephen, of the high priest
Reproof » Exemplified » Stephen
Resistance » Who resists the holy spirit
Self-will » Exhibited in » Resisting the holy spirit
Self-will and stubbornness » Exhibited in » Resisting the holy ghost
Sin » Against the spirit
Spirit » Believers in the early church baptized with » The sin against
Spirit » Quickeneth » Sin against
Unpardonable sin » The sin against the holy spirit

Acts 7:52 (show verse)

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!

Acts 7:53 (show verse)

who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it.

Acts 7:54 (show verse)

And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

Acts 7:55 (show verse)

But being full of the Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

Acts 7:56 (show verse)

and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

Acts 7:57 (show verse)

And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

Acts 7:58 (show verse)

and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

Acts 7:59 (show verse)

And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Acts 7:60 (show verse)

And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.