Acts 6:2

Legacy Standard Bible

So the twelve summoned the congregation of the disciples and said, “It is not pleasing to God for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

Cross References

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Acts 21:22

What, then, is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.

Acts 25:27

For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him.”

Acts 4:19

But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, you be the judge;

Acts 6:1

Now in those days, while the disciples were multiplying in number, there was grumbling from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food.

Acts 6:3

Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this need.

2 Timothy 2:4

No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.