Acts 6:1

Lighthouse Bible 2006

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Cross References

Job 29:13

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 31:16

If I have kept back the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 110:3

Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be a handful of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 27:6

He shall cause those who come from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Jeremiah 30:19

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you have they lightly regarded father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they troubled the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor permit those who are entering to go in.

Acts 11:20

And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they came to Antioch, spoke to the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:26

And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it came to pass, that for a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Acts 11:29

Then the disciples, everyone according to his ability, determined to send relief to the believers who dwelt in Judea:

Acts 2:41

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:45

And sold their possessions and goods, and divided them to all men, as every man had need.

Acts 2:47

Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

Acts 4:35

And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made to everyone according as he had need.

Acts 4:4

However many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

And believers were all the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

Acts 5:28

Saying, Did not we strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? And, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

Acts 6:2

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said, It is not right that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

Acts 6:7

And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and a large number of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Acts 9:29

And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

Acts 9:39

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

Acts 9:41

And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.

Romans 12:7

Or ministry, let us serve in our ministering: or he that teaches, in teaching;

1 Corinthians 10:10

Neither should you murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

2 Corinthians 11:22

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the descendents of Abraham? So am I.

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;

Philippians 3:5

Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; with respect to the law, a Pharisee;

1 Timothy 5:3

Honor widows that are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:9

Do not let a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us is inclined to envy?

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.