Acts 9:39

James Moffatt - New Testament

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him up to the room, where all the widows stood beside him crying as they showed him the garments and dresses that Dorcas used to make when she was with them.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 1:3

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

1 John 3:18

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

2 Corinthians 8:12

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

Acts 20:35

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

Acts 9:41

Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him,

Acts 6:1

During these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists began to complain against the Hebrews, on the ground that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

John 17:12

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished — only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

John 12:8

You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me."

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

Mark 14:8

She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

Matthew 26:11

The poor you always have beside you, but you will not always have me.

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

Acts 1:13

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

1 Timothy 5:3

Widows who really need it must be supported from the funds.

1 Timothy 5:5

The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications;