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Acts 7:25

James Moffatt - New Testament

(He thought his brothers would understand God was going to bring them deliverance by means of him, but they did not understand.)

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I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

I appeal to you too, as a worker with God, do not receive the grace of God in vain.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

I will not make free to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished by me in the way of securing the obedience of the Gentiles, by my words and by my deeds,

and after saluting them Paul described in detail what God had done by means of his ministry among the Gentiles.

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

On arriving at Jerusalem they were received by the church, the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported how God had been with them and what he had done.

On their arrival they gathered the church together and reported how God had been with them, what he had done, and how he had opened a door into faith for the Gentiles.

However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

But they did not understand this saying — indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it — and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

But they did not understand what he said, and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged.

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"




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