Acts 6:1

American Standard Version (1901)

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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  • Acts 4:35 : 35 and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 2:47 : 47 praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 9:29 : 29 preaching boldly in the name of the Lord: and he spake and disputed against the Grecian Jews; but they were seeking to kill him.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
  • Acts 9:41 : 41 And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let love of the brethren continue.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
  • Acts 2:45 : 45 and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
  • Deut 24:19-21 : 19 When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest [the grapes of] thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • Deut 26:12 : 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 72:16 : 16 There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
  • Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [

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