Most Popular Bible Verses in Acts 7

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Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsDiscernment Of GovernorsRescueRulersWisdom, Human ImportanceGod Gives WisdomAfflictions

And delivered him out of all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and show wisdom before Pharaoh, King of Egypt, who appointed him Governor of Egypt and of his whole household.

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Verse ConceptsAngels as God's servantsMoses, Significance OfAngels, Important EventsLawgiversIsrael In The WildernessAngels Giving The LawAngels As MediatorsThe Law Given Through Moses

He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the Desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.

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Verse ConceptsFirst Actions

Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

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Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfAbrahamGod, Unity OfGod AppearingPay Attention To People!

And, upon that, Stephen spoke as follows: "Brothers and Fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the Glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him--

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Verse ConceptsRelatives Also InvolvedSecond ThingPeople Made KnownIdentityIdentity In ChristRace

In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

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Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food

Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.

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Verse ConceptsSeventies

Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relations, seventy-five persons in all;

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And so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,

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Verse ConceptsMoney, Uses OfThe Cave Of Machpelah

And their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

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Verse ConceptsAdoption

And, when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh found him and brought him up as her own son.

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Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersPeople MultiplyingGod's Promise To AbrahamThe Time AppointedPromisesfulfillment

As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people increased largely in numbers in Egypt,

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Verse ConceptsTwo To Four Months

It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father's house;

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Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

Until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne.

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Verse ConceptsSanctity Of LifeInfanticideOppressorsKilling Sons And DaughtersThe Death Of Babies

This king acted deceitfully towards our race and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared.

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Verse ConceptsVisiting

When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his brother Israelites;

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Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo Sons

At these words Moses took to flight, and became an exile in Midian; and there he had two sons born to him.

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On this, Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father's death, God caused him to migrate into this very country, in which you are now living.

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Verse ConceptsDo You Understand?Individuals Saving OthersNot Understanding God's Thingsdeliverance

He thought his brothers would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.

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Verse ConceptsGod Gave The LandGod's Promise To AbrahamNo Earthly Inheritance

God did not at that time give him any part of it, not even a foot of ground. But he promised to 'give him possession of it and his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child.

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Verse Conceptsdefence, humanOppression, Nature OfMan AvengingGod Being Outside Of Creation

And, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.

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Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

God's words were these--'Abraham's descendants shall live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.

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Verse ConceptsLeaving EgyptWorshipping God

But I myself will judge the nation, to which they will be enslaved,' God said, 'and after that they shall leave the country and worship me in this place.'

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Verse ConceptsAbrahamPilgrimsSeparating From Relativesland

'Leave your country and your kindred, and come into the country that I will show you.'

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Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesWronging Other PeopleFighting One Another

The next day he again appeared upon the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. 'Men,' he said, 'you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?'

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Verse ConceptsRulers

But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying--'Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

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Verse ConceptsCrimesevangelists, ministry ofMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom Of The SaintsMartyrdom, Methods OfOutside The City

And began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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Verse ConceptsSon Of ManSonsHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansJesus As Son Of ManThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenHeavenly VisionGoing To Heaven

"Look," he exclaimed, "I see Heaven open and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"

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Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Me

Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?'

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Verse ConceptsAmazingGod's Voice

When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say--

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Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodBuilding God's DwellingWritten In The Prophetsstructure

Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the Prophet says--

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Verse ConceptsMartyrdom, Examples OfPredictionsPrejudiceProphets, Lives OfRejection Of GodNames And Titles For ChristDenunciationsHanding Over ChristKilling ProphetsPredicting ChristProphets SufferingChrist Was KilledRighteousness Of Christ

Which of the Prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers--

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Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToBabylon, In NtShrinesExile In Prospect

You took with you the tabernacle of Moloch and the Star of the god Rephan--the images which you had made to worship. Therefore I will exile you beyond Babylon.'

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Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalThe Number TwelveSacramentsAbraham, God's Covenant WithLess Than A Year OldTwelve BeingsCircumcisionGifts Of GodGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsOther Gifts Of God

Then God made with Abraham the Covenant of Circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs.

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Verse Concepts40 To 50 YearsGod Appearing In FireGod Led Them Through The Wilderness

Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the Desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.

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Verse ConceptsDivine PlansDesignThe Tabernacle

Our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Revelation in the Desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.

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Verse ConceptsJealousyAbraham, New Testament ReferencesGod With Specific PeopleThose Jealous Of People

The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,

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Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

This Tabernacle, which was handed down to them, was brought into this country by our ancestors who accompanied Joshua (at the conquest of the nations that God drove out before their advance), and remained here until the time of David.

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Verse ConceptsFootstoolsFeetGod, Sovereignty OfHeaven, Nature OfGod Is TranscendentHeaven, God's ThroneGod's DwellingWhat Kind?God Being Outside Of Creationfootprints

'The heavens are a throne for me, and the earth a stool for my feet. What manner of House will you build me, says the Lord, or what place is there where I may rest?

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Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together

So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the Book of the Prophets--'Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, O House of Israel, all those forty years in the Desert?

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Verse ConceptsBurning bushMoses, Significance OfRejection Of GodIndividuals Saving OthersRejection

This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words--'Who made you a ruler and a judge?' was the very man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.

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Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsGod Of The FathersIndividuals TremblingNot Seeing GodI Am GodLosing Courage

'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled, and did not dare to look.

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Verse ConceptsVoicesSealing ThingsGroups RunningGroups ShoutingRefusing To Hear

At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed upon him, forced him outside the city,

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Verse ConceptsChrist Like PeopleJesus The Prophet

This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel--'God will raise up for you, from among your brothers, a Prophet, as he raised up me.'

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Verse ConceptsBarefeetSandalsHoly Land

Then the Lord said to him--'Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.

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Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

David found favor with God, and prayed that he might find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

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Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forReturning to the oldDesires Of The Heart

Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

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Verse ConceptsAaron, Life Eventsdoubt, results ofMonotony

While they said to Aaron--'Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

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Verse ConceptsGuidance, Examples Of God'sPlaguesThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessComing To The Red SeaOther MiraclesSigns And Wonders Before ChristWeed

He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the Desert during forty years.

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Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerOppression, God's Attitude ToRescueAnswered PromisesGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Saving From EnemiesOppressorsGod Sending His SonGod Sending Prophets

I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.'

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Verse ConceptsCalf worshipCalvesIdolatry Consists OfGolden CalvesRejoicing In Evil

That was the time when they made the Calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!

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Verse ConceptsBuilding God's Dwelling

But it was Solomon who built a House for God.

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Verse ConceptsCreation, Origin OfHand Of God

Was it not my hand that made all these things?'