Acts 6:1

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During these days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there was a complaint by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrew-speaking Jews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

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  • Acts 4:35 : 35 They laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as they had need.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
  • Acts 2:47 : 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added daily to their numbers those who were being saved.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 So the word of God spread. The number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 9:29 : 29 He talked and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. All the widows stood around him weeping and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.
  • Acts 9:41 : 41 Peter gave her his hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and the widows and presented her to them alive.
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and also began speaking to the Greeks, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were being added to their number.
  • 2 Cor 11:22 : 22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
  • Phil 3:5 : 5 Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. 5 The widow who is truly alone and desolate has placed her hope in God and continues in prayers and petitions night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us?
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, didn’t we? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
  • Acts 2:45 : 45 They sold their possessions and goods and distributed the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Do not grumble, as some of them did, and they were destroyed by the destroyer.
  • Deut 24:19-21 : 19 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  • Deut 26:12 : 12 When you have finished tithing all the produce of your third-year harvest, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow so that they may eat within your towns and be satisfied.
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of the one about to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
  • Ps 72:16 : 16 May there be an abundance of grain in the land, flourishing on the tops of the mountains. May its fruit wave like Lebanon, and may people flourish in the cities like the grass of the earth.
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day of your power; in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, your youth are like the dew.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do what is good; seek justice, correct the oppressor. Defend the cause of the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.
  • Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the whole world with fruit.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 Out of them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will increase their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be despised.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

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