Acts 6:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

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  • Deut 1:9-9 : 9 At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself; 10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number. 11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said! 12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments? 13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. 14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.
  • Exod 18:17-26 : 17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. 18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself. 19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: 20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do. 21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; 22 And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you. 23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. 24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said. 25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens. 26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.
  • Num 11:11-13 : 11 And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people? 12 Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers? 13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
  • 2 Tim 2:4 : 4 A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.
  • Neh 6:3 : 3 And I sent men to them saying, I am doing a great work, so that it is not possible for me to come down: is the work to be stopped while I go away from it and come down to you?
  • Acts 4:19 : 19 But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:
  • Acts 21:22 : 22 What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come.
  • Acts 25:27 : 27 For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 6:3-7
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    3 Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

    4 Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.

    5 And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:

    6 These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.

    7 And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.

  • Acts 6:1
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    1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.

  • Acts 15:6-7
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    6 And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.

    7 And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.

  • Acts 13:2
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    2 And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.

  • 1 Cor 9:6
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    6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?

  • Acts 4:35
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    35 And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.

  • Mark 6:36-37
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    36 Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

    37 But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

  • Luke 9:12-13
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    12 And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

    13 But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

  • Matt 14:16
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    16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

  • Acts 11:29
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    29 And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:

  • Rom 12:7
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    7 Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

  • Acts 5:29
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    29 But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

  • Luke 6:13
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    13 And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;

  • John 6:11-13
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    11 Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

    12 And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

    13 So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

  • Acts 4:19
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    19 But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8 And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

    9 Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

  • Acts 1:15
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    15 And in those days Peter got up among the brothers (there were about one hundred and twenty of them), and said,

  • Eph 6:7
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    7 Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

  • 2 Cor 8:20
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    20 And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands:

  • Acts 15:28
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    28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

  • John 6:67
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    67 So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away?

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

  • Acts 15:19
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    19 For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;

  • Mark 6:31
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    31 And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

  • Acts 4:15-16
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    15 But when they had given them orders to go out of the Sanhedrin, they had a discussion among themselves,

    16 Saying, What are we to do with these men? for certainly it is clear to all who are living in Jerusalem that a most important sign has been done by them, and it is not possible to say that it is not so.

  • Acts 15:24-25
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    24 Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

    25 It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

  • Acts 2:46
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    46 And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

  • John 6:7
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    7 Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

  • 1 Pet 5:2
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    2 Keep watch over the flock of God which is in your care, using your authority, not as forced to do so, but gladly; and not for unclean profit but with a ready mind;

  • Acts 2:42
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    42 And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

  • Heb 6:10
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    10 For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.

  • John 6:5
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    5 Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

  • Acts 1:21
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    21 For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

  • Acts 15:2
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    2 And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.

  • Mark 3:14
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    14 And he took twelve to be with him, so that he might send them out as preachers,

  • Gal 2:10
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    10 Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.

  • 1 Cor 9:13
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    13 Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?

  • Acts 6:9
    65%

    9 But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.