Acts 6:1

Tree of Life Version

Now in those days, when the disciples were multiplying, grumbling arose among the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily support.

Cross References

Job 29:13

the blessing of the dying man came on me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 31:16

“If I withheld the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 110:3

Your people will be a freewill offering in a day of your power. In holy splendors, from dawn’s womb, yours is the dew of your youth.

Psalm 72:16

Let there be abundance of grain in the land. Let it sway on the top of the hills, let its fruit be like Lebanon, and let people of the city flourish like grass of the field.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good, seek justice, relieve the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 27:6

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

Jeremiah 30:19

Out of them will come thanksgiving and the sound of celebration. I will multiply them, so they will not decrease. I will also honor them, so they will not be insignificant.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother have been treated with contempt; the outsider has been oppressed in your midst; the orphan and the widow have been mistreated in you.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, perjurers those who extort a worker’s wage, or oppress the widow or an orphan, those who mislead a stranger. They do not fear Me,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.

Acts 11:20

However, there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Hellenists also, proclaiming the Lord Yeshua.

Acts 11:26

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met together with Messiah’s community and taught a large number. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christianoi.”

Acts 11:29

So the disciples decided to send relief to those brothers and sisters living in Judea, each according to his ability.

Acts 2:41

So those who received his message were immersed, and that day about three thousand souls were added.

Acts 2:45

They began selling their property and possessions and sharing them with all, as any had need.

Acts 2:47

praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord was adding to their number those being saved.

Acts 4:35

and set them at the feet of the emissaries. And the proceeds were distributed according to the need each one had.

Acts 4:4

But many who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

Yet more than ever those trusting in the Lord were added—large numbers of men and women.

Acts 5:28

saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name—and look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring on us the blood of this Man!”

Acts 6:2

So the Twelve called together the whole group of the disciples and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God in order to serve tables.

Acts 6:7

The word of God kept on spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem greatly multiplied; even a great number of the kohanim were becoming obedient to the faith.

Acts 9:29

He was speaking and arguing with the Hellenists, but they were trying to kill him.

Acts 9:39

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him to the upstairs room. All the widows were crying, showing all the tunics and other clothing Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Acts 9:41

He gave her his hand and raised her up. Then he called the kedoshim and widows and presented her alive.

Romans 12:7

if service, in our serving; or the one who teaches, in his teaching;

1 Corinthians 10:10

And let’s not grumble, as some of them did—and were destroyed by the destroying angel.

2 Corinthians 11:22

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

Deuteronomy 26:12

“When you finish tithing the full tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, to the outsider, to the orphan and to the widow, so that they may eat within your town gates and be satisfied.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised the eighth day; of the nation of Israel; from the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the Torah, a Pharisee;

1 Timothy 5:3

Honor widows who are really widows—

1 Timothy 5:9

Let a widow be listed only if she is at least sixty, was the wife of one husband,

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 4:5

Or do you think that in vain the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit which He made to dwell in us”?

James 5:9

Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge is standing at the doors.