Acts 6:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

In those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a complaint by the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

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  • Acts 4:35 : 35 And laid them at the apostles’ feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need.
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.
  • Acts 2:47 : 47 Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
  • Acts 6:7 : 7 The word of God spread, the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of the priests became obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 9:29 : 29 And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Hellenists: but they attempted to kill him.
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
  • Acts 9:41 : 41 And he gave her his hand and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 : 14 And more believers were 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 the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
  • 1 Tim 5:4-5 : 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents, for this is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns jealously?
  • Jas 5:9 : 9 Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 Saying, Did we not strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
  • Acts 2:45 : 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 Do not complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
  • Deut 24:19-21 : 19 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • Deut 26:12 : 12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of a dying man 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
  • Ps 72:16 : 16 There shall be a handful of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; the fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your 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 Those who come from Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 And out of them shall come thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

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