Acts 6:1

New International Version

In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

Cross References

Job 29:13

The one who was dying blessed me; I made the widow’s heart sing.

Job 31:16

“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,

Psalm 110:3

Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning’s womb.

Psalm 72:16

May grain abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. May the crops flourish like Lebanon and thrive like the grass of the field.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

Jeremiah 30:19

From them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will add to their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will bring them honor, and they will not be disdained.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Acts 11:20

Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:26

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

Acts 11:29

The disciples, as each one was able, decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea.

Acts 2:41

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Acts 2:45

They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

Acts 2:47

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 4:35

and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.

Acts 4:4

But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.

Acts 5:28

“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”

Acts 6:2

So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, “It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.

Acts 6:7

So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

Acts 9:29

He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him.

Acts 9:39

Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

Acts 9:41

He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.

Romans 12:7

if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;

1 Corinthians 10:10

And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

2 Corinthians 11:22

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

1 Timothy 5:3

Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.

1 Timothy 5:9

No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,

Hebrews 13:1

Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 4:5

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

James 5:9

Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!