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Acts 7:1 (show verse)

And the high priest said, Are these things so?

Acts 7:2 (show verse)

And he said, Brethren and fathers, hearken: The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,

Acts 7:3 (show verse)

and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Acts 7:4 (show verse)

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, God removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:

Acts 7:5 (show verse)

and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Acts 7:6 (show verse)

And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, 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 that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

Acts 7:8 (show verse)

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

Acts 7:9 (show verse)

And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

Acts 7:10 (show verse)

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Acts 7:11 (show verse)

Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Acts 7:12 (show verse)

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

Acts 7:13 (show verse)

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race became manifest unto Pharaoh.

Acts 7:14 (show verse)

And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Acts 7:15 (show verse)

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

Acts 7:16 (show verse)

and they were carried over unto Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Acts 7:17 (show verse)

But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Acts 7:18 (show verse)

till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

Acts 7:19 (show verse)

The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

Acts 7:20 (show verse)

At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father's house.

Acts 7:21 (show verse)

and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own 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 works.

Acts 7:23 (show verse)

But when he was well-nigh forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

Acts 7:24 (show verse)

And seeing one of them'suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:

Acts 7:25 (show verse)

and he supposed that his brethren understood that God by his hand was giving them deliverance; but they understood not.

Acts 7:26 (show verse)

And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

Acts 7:27 (show verse)

But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7:28 (show verse)

Wouldest thou 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 Midian, 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 in a bush.

Acts 7:31 (show verse)

And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, there came 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 behold.

Acts 7:33 (show verse)

And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Acts 7:34 (show verse)

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I am come down to deliver them: and now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

Acts 7:35 (show verse)

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

Acts 7:36 (show verse)

This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 7:37 (show verse)

This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.

Acts 7:38 (show verse)

This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:

Acts 7:39 (show verse)

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

Acts 7:40 (show verse)

saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Acts 7:41 (show verse)

And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

Acts 7:42 (show verse)

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:43 (show verse)

And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

Acts 7:44 (show verse)

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.

Acts 7:45 (show verse)

Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Acts 7:46 (show verse)

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

Acts 7:47 (show verse)

But Solomon built him a house.

Acts 7:48 (show verse)

Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Acts 7:49 (show verse)

The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of my rest?

Acts 7:50 (show verse)

Did not my hand make all these things?

Acts 7:51 (show verse)

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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 did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

Acts 7:53 (show verse)

ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

Acts 7:54 (show verse)

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Acts 7:55 (show verse)

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

Acts 7:56 (show verse)

and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

Acts 7:57 (show verse)

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

Acts 7:58 (show verse)

and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Acts 7:59 (show verse)

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord , and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Acts 7:60 (show verse)

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.