Acts 9:39

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:24

“Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

Proverbs 10:7

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Matthew 17:17

And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 26:11

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

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.

Luke 24:44

Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

John 12:8

The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

John 17:12

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Acts 1:13

and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.

Acts 20:35

In all things I have shown you that by so toiling one must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

Acts 6:1

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.

Acts 8:2

Devout men buried Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.

Acts 9:41

And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. Then calling the saints and widows he presented her alive.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

1 Timothy 5:3

Honor widows who are real widows.

1 Timothy 5:5

She who is a real widow, and is left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day;

1 John 3:18

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