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Themes in Acts 7
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Themes in Acts 7

Acts 7:1

And the chief priest said, Hold these things thus?

Acts 7:2

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye: The God of glory was sent to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Acts 7:3

And he said to him, Come out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

Acts 7:4

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

Acts 7:5

And he gave him none inheritance in it, not a step of the foot: and he promised to give it him for a possession, and to his seed after him, there being no child to him.

Acts 7:6

And God spake thus, That his seed shall be dwelling in a strange land; and it shall subjugate them, and inflict evil four hundred years.

Acts 7:7

And the nation which they serve will I judge, said God: and after these shall they go out, and shall serve me in this place.

Acts 7:8

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

Acts 7:9

And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Acts 7:10

And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.

Acts 7:11

And a famine came upon the whole land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great pressure: and our fathers found no food.

Acts 7:12

And Jacob having heard wheat being in Egypt, sent our fathers first.

Acts 7:13

And in the second time, Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's race was manifest to Pharaoh.

Acts 7:14

And Joseph having sent, called for his father Jacob, and all his kindred, in seventy-five souls.

Acts 7:15

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

Acts 7:16

And they transported him to Sychem and put him in the tomb which Abraham was satisfied with for a price of silver from the sons of Emmor of Sychem.

Acts 7:17

And as the time of the solemn promise drew near, which God aware to Abraham, the people increased and were multiplied in Egypt.

Acts 7:18

Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

Acts 7:19

He having deceived our race by sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fathers, to make their babes cast out, that they should not breed.

Acts 7:20

In which time Moses was born, and he was shrewd to God, who was nourished up three months in his father's house:

Acts 7:21

And he having been exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for a son to herself.

Acts 7:22

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works.

Acts 7:23

And when the time of forty years was completed to him, it came up upon his heart to take a view of his brethren the sons of Israel.

Acts 7:24

And having seen a certain one injured, he defended, and did vengeance for him harassed, having struck the Egyptian,

Acts 7:25

And he supposed his brethren to understand that God by his hand gives them salvation: and they understood not.

Acts 7:26

And the following day he was seen to those contending, and he compelled them to peace, having said, Men, ye are brethren; wherefore injure ye one another?

Acts 7:27

And he injuring the neighbor repulsed him, having said, Who set thee a ruler and judge over us?

Acts 7:28

Wilt thou not kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?

Acts 7:29

And Moses fled at this word, and he was a sojourner in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

Acts 7:30

And forty years completed, a messenger of the Lord was seen to him in the desert of mount Sina, in a flame of fire in a bramble.

Acts 7:31

And Moses having seen, wondered at the sight: and he coming near to observe attentively, the voice of the Lord was to him,

Acts 7:32

I the God of thy fathers, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses being trembling, dared not observe attentively.

Acts 7:33

And the Lord said to him, Loose the shoes of thy feet: for the place in which thou standest is holy land.

Acts 7:34

Having seen, I saw the injury of my people in Egypt, and I heard their groaning, and came down to take them away. And now came, I will send thee into Egypt.

Acts 7:35

This Moses which they denied, having said, Who set thee ruler and judge? this, God sent, a ruler and redeemer by the hand of the messenger having been seen to him in the bramble.

Acts 7:36

He brought them out, having done wonders and sign in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the desert forty years.

Acts 7:37

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

Acts 7:38

This is he having been in the church in the desert with the messenger speaking to him in Mount Sina, and our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us:

Acts 7:39

To whom our fathers would not be obedient, but rejected, and in their hearts they turned back into Egypt,

Acts 7:40

Having said 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 been to him.

Acts 7:41

And they made a calf in those days, and brought up a sacrifice to the image, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

Acts 7:42

And God turned, and delivered them up to serve the army of heaven; as it has been written in the book of the prophets, Slain victims and sacrifices brought ye not to me forty years in the desert, O house of Israel,

Acts 7:43

And ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, types which ye made to worship them: and I will transplant you beyond Babylon.

Acts 7:44

The tent of testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as he speaking set to Moses, to make it according to the type which he had seen.

Acts 7:45

Which also our fathers having received brought in with Jesus in the possession of nations, which God drove out from our fathers' face, even to the days of David;

Acts 7:46

Who found grace before God, and asked to find a tent to the God of Jacob.

Acts 7:47

And Solomon built for himself a house.

Acts 7:48

But the Highest dwells not in temples made by hands; as says the prophet,

Acts 7:49

Heaven a throne to me, and earth the footstool of my feet: what house will ye build to me? says the Lord: or what the place of my rest?

Acts 7:50

Did not my hand make all these things?

Acts 7:51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did not your fathers drive out and they slew them announcing beforehand of the coming of the Just; of whom ye have now been traitors and murderers:

Acts 7:53

Who have received the law by the regulations of messengers, and ye watched not.

Acts 7:54

And having heard those, they were sawn through their hearts, and they gnashed the teeth upon him.

Acts 7:55

And being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked intently to heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

Acts 7:56

And he said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

Acts 7:57

And having cried with a great voice, they held fast their ears, and rushed unanimously upon him,

Acts 7:58

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

Acts 7:59

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

Acts 7:60

And having set the knees, he cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest thou not set this sin to them. And having said this he was set to sleep.
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