Acts 7:25 “He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to del…”

Acts 7:25

He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

World English Bible

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For hee supposed his brethren would haue vnderstand, that God by his hande should giue them deliuerance: but they vnderstoode it not.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

Bible in Basic English

And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.

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Cross references

“God”

1 Corinthians 15:10 2 Corinthians 6:1 Acts 14:27 Acts 15:4 Acts 15:7 Acts 21:19

1 Corinthians 15:10 · BSB

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

2 Corinthians 6:1 · BSB

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

Acts 14:27 · BSB

When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Acts 15:4 · BSB

On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them.

Acts 15:7 · BSB

After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

Acts 21:19 · BSB

Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

“but”

Luke 9:45 Luke 18:34 Psalm 106:7 Mark 9:32

Luke 9:45 · BSB

But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Luke 18:34 · BSB

But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

Psalm 106:7 · BSB

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Mark 9:32 · BSB

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.

26The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

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