Acts 9:39

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 1:3

We recall, in the presence of our God and Father,  your work produced by faith,  your labour motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share  with anyone in need.

Proverbs 10:7

The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

Acts 20:35

In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by labouring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”  ’

Acts 9:41

He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. He called the saints and widows and presented her alive.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

Acts 6:1

In those days, as the disciples  were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

John 17:12

While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded   them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction,   so that the Scripture   may be fulfilled.

John 12:8

For you always have the poor with you,   but you do not always have me.’

Luke 24:44

He told them, ‘These are my words   that I spoke to you while I was still with you #– #that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets,   and the Psalms   must be fulfilled.’

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body   in advance for burial.

Matthew 26:11

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.

Matthew 17:17

Jesus replied, ‘You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.’

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength,  because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom  in Sheol where you are going.

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with luxurious things, who decked your garments with gold ornaments.

Acts 1:13

When they arrived, they went to the room  upstairs where they were staying: Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

1 Timothy 5:3

Support  widows  who are genuinely in need.

1 Timothy 5:5

The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God  and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;