Acts 7:26
Good News Translation
The next day he saw two Israelites fighting, and he tried to make peace between them. 'Listen, men,' he said, 'you are fellow Israelites; why are you fighting like this?'

New Revised Standard Version
The next day he came to some of them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you wrong each other?’

Contemporary English Version
The next day Moses saw two of his own people fighting, and he tried to make them stop. He said, "Men, you are both Israelites. Why are you so cruel to each other?"

New American Bible
The next day he appeared to them as they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you harming one another?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

the next.

Exodus 2:13-15 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour? . . .

ye are.

Genesis 13:8 Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

Genesis 45:24 So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

Psalm 133:1 A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:

Proverbs 18:19 A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.

John 15:17,18 These things I command you, that you love one another. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

Philippians 2:1,3 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration: . . .

1 John 3:11-15 For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
25And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them. But they understood it not. 26And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another? 27But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us:…
Cross References
Exodus 2:13
And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?

Matthew 14:22
And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the boat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the people.

Acts 7:25
And he thought that his brethren understood that God by his hand would save them. But they understood it not.

Acts 7:25
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