Acts 7 (NET)

Acts 7:1¹Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:19-21Matt 26:61-62Acts 6:13-14John 18:33-35Mark 14:58-60

Acts 7:2²So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 22:1Gen 11:31Ps 29:3Heb 1:3John 1:14Neh 9:7Gen 15:71 Cor 2:8Acts 23:7Gen 12:1

Acts 7:3³and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:1Heb 11:8Gen 15:7Josh 24:32 Cor 6:17Luke 14:33Matt 10:37Neh 9:8Gen 13:14-17

Acts 7:4⁴Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:4-5Gen 11:31-32Isa 41:2Isa 41:9

Acts 7:5⁵He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:8Gen 12:7Gen 13:15Gen 15:18Gen 26:3Deut 10:11Deut 11:9Deut 2:5Deut 34:4Deut 6:10-11

Acts 7:6⁶But God spoke as follows: ‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for 400 years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:13Exod 12:40-41Gal 3:17Gen 15:16

Acts 7:7⁷But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God, ‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:12Ps 105:27-36Exod 7:1-14Gen 15:14-16Neh 9:9-11Ps 135:8-9Ps 136:10-15Ps 74:12-14Ps 78:43-51Isa 51:9-10

Acts 7:8⁸Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:9-14Gen 35:23-261 Chr 1:341 Chr 2:1-2Acts 2:29Exod 1:1-4Gal 3:15Gal 3:17Gen 21:1-4Gen 25:21-26

Acts 7:9⁹The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 39:2Ps 105:17Isa 43:2Gen 45:4Isa 41:10Gen 37:18-29Gen 39:21-23Gen 39:5Gen 49:23-24Matt 27:18

Acts 7:10¹⁰and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 4:18Prov 3:4Gen 48:16Prov 2:6Ps 22:24Gen 42:6Ps 34:17-19Gen 41:12-46Ps 105:19-22Ps 37:40

Acts 7:11¹¹Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 41:54-57Gen 42:5Gen 43:1Gen 45:11Gen 45:5-6Gen 47:13-15Ps 105:16

Acts 7:12¹²So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 42:1-24Gen 43:2

Acts 7:13¹³On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 45:1-18Gen 46:31-47:10

Acts 7:14¹⁴So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:22Gen 46:26-27Exod 1:51 Chr 2:5-6Gen 45:9-11Gen 46:12Ps 105:23

Acts 7:15¹⁵So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:6Gen 49:33Gen 46:3-7Deut 10:22Deut 26:5Heb 11:21-22Josh 24:4Num 20:15

Acts 7:16¹⁶and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 24:32Gen 23:16Exod 13:19Gen 33:9-20Gen 34:2-31Gen 49:29-32Gen 50:13Gen 35:19

Acts 7:17¹⁷“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:7-12Acts 13:17Acts 7:6Gen 15:13-16Ps 105:24-252 Pet 3:8-9Exod 1:20

Acts 7:18¹⁸until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:8

Acts 7:19¹⁹This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:25Exod 1:9-22Ps 83:4-5Rev 12:4-5Ps 129:1-3

Acts 7:20²⁰At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father’s house,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:23Exod 2:2-101 Sam 16:12

Acts 7:21²¹and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:24Deut 32:26Exod 2:2-10

Acts 7:22²²So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 19:112 Chr 9:22Dan 1:17-20Dan 1:4Luke 24:191 Kgs 4:29-30

Acts 7:23²³But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:11-12Heb 11:24-26Phil 2:12-13Prov 21:1Ezra 7:27Jas 1:17Rev 17:172 Chr 30:12Exod 35:21Exod 35:29

Acts 7:24²⁴When he saw one of them being hurt unfairly, Moses came to his defense and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 18:10-11Acts 7:28John 18:25-27

Acts 7:25²⁵He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:102 Cor 6:1Luke 18:34Luke 9:451 Cor 3:91 Sam 14:451 Sam 19:52 Kgs 5:1Acts 14:27Acts 15:4

Acts 7:26²⁶The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:13-151 Cor 6:6-81 John 3:11-15Gen 13:8Gen 45:24John 15:17-18Phil 2:1Phil 2:3Prov 18:19Ps 133:1

Acts 7:27²⁷But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:14Acts 7:35Prov 9:7-81 Sam 25:14-15Acts 3:13-15Acts 4:11-12Acts 4:7Acts 5:33Acts 7:39Acts 7:54

Acts 7:28²⁸You don’t want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you? ’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Acts 7:29²⁹When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:2-4Exod 2:14-22Exod 4:19-20

Acts 7:30³⁰“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:1-2Acts 7:35Isa 43:2Acts 7:32Exod 3:6Isa 63:9Acts 7:17Dan 3:27Deut 4:20Exod 7:7

Acts 7:31³¹When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:3-4

Acts 7:32³²‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:6Matt 22:321 Kgs 19:13Acts 3:13Acts 9:4-6Dan 10:7-8Exod 3:15Exod 33:20Exod 4:5Gen 28:13-17

Acts 7:33³³But the Lord said to him, ‘Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:5Josh 5:152 Pet 1:18Eccl 5:1

Acts 7:34³⁴I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:7-10Exod 4:31Neh 9:9Ps 106:44Exod 2:23-25Exod 3:14John 6:38Hos 12:13Isa 63:8-9Exod 6:5-6

Acts 7:35³⁵This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge? ’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 19:14Ps 118:22-23Num 20:16Ps 113:7-8Ps 75:7Exod 14:191 Sam 10:271 Sam 12:81 Sam 8:7-8Acts 2:36

Acts 7:36³⁶This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 12:41Exod 14:21Exod 33:1Exod 14:27-29Exod 16:35Exod 7:1-14Ps 78:12-33Acts 13:18Acts 7:42Deut 2:25-37

Acts 7:37³⁷This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 18:15-19Acts 3:22-23John 18:37Acts 7:38Matt 17:3-5Luke 9:30-31Luke 9:35Mark 9:7John 8:46-472 Chr 28:22

Acts 7:38³⁸This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:2Heb 5:121 Pet 4:11Acts 7:53Deut 33:4John 1:17Deut 32:46-47Deut 5:27-31Deut 6:1-3Isa 63:9

Acts 7:39³⁹Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:3-4Num 11:5Neh 9:16-17Acts 7:51-52Exod 16:3Ezek 20:6-141 Kgs 2:27Exod 14:11-12Exod 17:3Judg 11:2

Acts 7:40⁴⁰saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt —we do not know what has happened to him! ’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 32:1Exod 32:23

Acts 7:41⁴¹At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:19-21Neh 9:18Hab 2:18-20Hos 9:1Hos 9:10Rev 9:20Deut 9:12-18Exod 32:17-20Exod 32:2-8Isa 2:8-9

Acts 7:42⁴²But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:25-26Ezek 20:39Jer 19:13Ps 81:11-12Deut 4:19Heb 3:15-17Isa 63:10Job 31:26-28Rom 1:24-282 Thess 2:10-12

Acts 7:43⁴³But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:26-27Exod 20:4-5Deut 5:8-9Lev 20:2-52 Kgs 17:16-182 Kgs 18:112 Kgs 21:6Deut 4:16-182 Kgs 17:6Lev 18:21

Acts 7:44⁴⁴Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 25:40Exod 38:21Heb 8:51 Chr 28:111 Chr 28:192 Chr 24:6Exod 25:8-9Exod 26:30Heb 8:2Josh 18:1

Acts 7:45⁴⁵Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 44:2Josh 18:1Josh 23:9Josh 24:181 Chr 15:1-171 Chr 16:391 Chr 21:291 Kgs 8:41 Sam 4:42 Sam 6:1-23

Acts 7:46⁴⁶He found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 132:1-5Acts 13:222 Sam 7:1-51 Chr 17:1-41 Chr 22:7-81 Sam 16:11 Sam 16:11-132 Sam 6:212 Sam 7:18-192 Sam 7:8-16

Acts 7:47⁴⁷But Solomon built a house for him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:201 Kgs 6:37-382 Sam 7:131 Chr 17:11 Kgs 5:1-6:21 Kgs 7:13-512 Chr 2:1-42 Chr 3:1Zech 6:12-13

Acts 7:48⁴⁸Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:24-25Isa 66:1-21 Kgs 8:272 Chr 2:5-62 Chr 6:18Ps 91:9Ps 91:1Dan 4:17Ps 92:8Dan 4:24-25

Acts 7:49⁴⁹‘Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 66:1Ps 11:4John 4:21Jer 23:24Rev 3:211 Kgs 22:19Matt 23:22Matt 5:34-35Jer 7:4-11Matt 24:2

Acts 7:50⁵⁰Did my hand not make all these things? ’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 32:17Isa 66:2Ps 33:6-9Acts 14:15Exod 20:11Isa 40:28Isa 45:12Isa 45:7-8Jer 10:11Ps 146:5-6

Acts 7:51⁵¹“You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:16Eph 4:30Isa 63:10Jer 4:4Lev 26:41Phil 3:3Exod 33:5Exod 32:9Exod 33:3Jer 6:10

Acts 7:52⁵²Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:121 Kgs 19:102 Chr 36:161 Thess 2:15Acts 3:14-15Jer 2:30Luke 11:47-51Matt 23:31-37Acts 5:28-30Rev 19:10

Acts 7:53⁵³You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 2:2Gal 3:19Acts 7:38Deut 33:2John 7:19Gal 6:13Ezek 20:18-21Rom 2:23-25Ps 68:17Exod 19:1-20

Acts 7:54⁵⁴When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:33Ps 35:16Job 16:9Luke 13:28Matt 13:50Matt 25:30Acts 22:22-23Lam 2:16Matt 13:42Matt 22:13

Acts 7:55⁵⁵But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently toward heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 16:19Heb 1:32 Cor 4:6Acts 6:10Acts 6:5Acts 6:8Heb 8:1Ps 109:31-110:1Rev 4:1-3Acts 2:4

Acts 7:56⁵⁶“Look!” he said. “I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 26:64-65Acts 10:11Rev 11:19Matt 3:16Rev 19:11Acts 10:16Dan 7:13-14Matt 16:27-28Rev 4:1John 1:51

Acts 7:57⁵⁷But they covered their ears, shouting out with a loud voice, and rushed at him with one intent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 7:11Acts 23:27Ps 58:4Acts 21:27-31Acts 7:54Prov 21:13

Acts 7:58⁵⁸When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 22:20Acts 8:1Acts 6:13Lev 24:14-161 Kgs 21:13Acts 22:4Deut 13:9-10Deut 17:7Luke 4:29Num 15:35

Acts 7:59⁵⁹They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:46Ps 31:5Acts 22:161 Cor 1:2Acts 2:21Acts 9:14Joel 2:32Acts 9:21Rom 10:12-14

Acts 7:60⁶⁰Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:44Luke 23:341 Cor 15:201 Thess 4:13-14Rom 12:14-21Acts 20:36Acts 9:40Luke 6:281 Cor 15:18Acts 13:36