Acts 2:46

World English Bible (2000)

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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  • Acts 5:42 : 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
  • Acts 20:7 : 7 On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
  • Luke 24:53 : 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.
  • Acts 2:42 : 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
  • Acts 3:1 : 1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
  • Acts 1:13-14 : 13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room, where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
  • Acts 16:34 : 34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
  • Eph 6:5 : 5 Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
  • Col 3:22 : 22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
  • Acts 5:21 : 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
  • Rom 12:8 : 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • 1 Cor 10:30-31 : 30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks? 31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • 1 Cor 11:20-22 : 20 When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken. 22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
  • Deut 12:12 : 12 You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
  • Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."
  • Ps 86:11 : 11 Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
  • Eccl 9:7 : 7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
  • Matt 6:22 : 22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  • Luke 24:30 : 30 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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  • 42They all ate, and were filled.

  • 40They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

  • 22As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."

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