Acts 9:39

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came round him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.

Cross References

Matthew 17:17

"O faithless and perverse generation!" Jesus exclaimed, "how long must I be among you? how long must I have patience with you? Bring the boy here to me."

Matthew 26:11

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 perfumed my body beforehand for my burial.

Luke 24:44

"This is what I told you," he said, "when I was still with you--that everything that had been written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms, must be fulfilled."

John 12:8

The poor you always have with you, but you will not always have me."

John 17:12

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

Acts 1:13

When they reached Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room, where they were staying. There were there Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Acts 20:35

I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself--'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

Acts 6:1

About this time, when the number of the disciples was constantly increasing, complaints were made by the Jews of foreign birth against the native Jews, that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

Acts 8:2

Some religious men buried Stephen, with loud lamentations for him.

Acts 9:41

Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ's People, presented her to them alive.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For, where there is willingness, a man's gift is valued by its comparison with what he has, and not with what he has not.

Ephesians 4:28

Let the man who steals steal no longer, but rather let him toil with his hands at honest work, so that he may have something to share with any one in want.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We do not wish you to remain in ignorance, Brothers, with regard to those who have passed to their rest, that your grief may not be like that of others, who have no hope.

1 Timothy 5:3

Show consideration for widows--I mean those who are really widowed.

1 Timothy 5:5

As for the woman who is really widowed and left quite alone, her hopes are fixed on God, and she devotes herself to prayers and supplications night and day.

1 John 3:18

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.