Acts 9:39

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

Matthew 26:11

For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

Luke 24:44

And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.

John 12:8

The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

John 17:12

While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.

Acts 1:13

And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

Acts 20:35

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

Acts 6:1

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 8:2

And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.

Acts 9:41

And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

1 Timothy 5:3

Give honour to widows who are truly widows.

1 Timothy 5:5

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

1 John 3:18

My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.