Acts 6:1

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

But in those days, when the number of disciples increased, the Greeks grutched against the Hebrews, for that their widows were despised in every day’s ministering.

Cross References

Job 29:13

The blessing of a man ready to perish came on me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.

Job 31:16

If I denied to poor men that, that they would, and if I made the eyes of a widow to abide;

Psalm 110:3

The beginning is with thee in the day of thy virtue, in the brightnesses of saints; I begat thee of the womb, before the day star.

Psalm 72:16

Steadfastness shall be in the earth, in the highest place of mountains; the fruit thereof shall be enhanced above the Lebanon; and they shall blossom from the city, as the hay of earth doeth.

Isaiah 1:17

learn ye to do well. Seek ye doom, help ye him that is oppressed, deem ye to the fatherless and motherless child, defend ye a widow.

Isaiah 27:6

for the merit of them that shall go out with fierceness from Jacob. Israel shall flower and bring forth seed, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Jeremiah 30:19

And praising and the voice of players shall go out of them, and I shall multiply them, and they shall not be decreased; and I shall glorify them, and they shall not be made thin.

Ezekiel 22:7

They punished with wrongs [the] father and mother in thee, they challenged falsely a comeling in the midst of thee, they made sorry a fatherless child, and a widow at thee.

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that close the kingdom of heavens [or the realm of heaven] before men; and ye enter not, neither suffer other men entering to enter.

Acts 11:20

But some of them were men of Cyprus, and of Cyrene; which when they had entered into Antioch, they spake to the Greeks, and preached the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:26

and when he had found him, he led to Antioch. And all a year they lived there in the church, and taught much people, so that the disciples were named first at Antioch christian men.

Acts 11:29

And all the disciples purposed, after that each had, for to send into ministry to brethren that dwelled in Judea.

Acts 2:41

Then they that received his word were baptized, and in that day souls were increased, about three thousand;

Acts 2:45

They sold possessions and chattel, [or substances, or goods], and parted those things to all men, as it was need to each.

Acts 2:47

and praised together God, and had grace to all the folk [or all the people]. And the Lord increased them that were made safe, each day into the same thing.

Acts 4:35

and laid before the feet of the apostles. And it was parted to each, as it was need to each.

Acts 4:4

But many of them that had heard the word, believed; and the number of men was made five thousands [or five thousand].

Acts 5:14

And the multitude of men and of women believing in the Lord was more increased,

Acts 5:28

and said, In commandment we commanded you, that ye should not teach in this name, and lo! ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye will bring on us the blood of this man.

Acts 6:2

And the twelve called together the multitude of disciples, and said, It is not rightful, that we leave the word of God, and minister to boards.

Acts 6:7

And the word of the Lord waxed, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was much multiplied; also a much company of priests obeyed to the faith.

Acts 9:29

And he spake with heathen men, and disputed with Greeks. And they sought to slay him.

Acts 9:39

And Peter rose up, and came with them. And when he was come, they led him into the solar. And all the widows stood about him, weeping, and showing coats and clothes, which Dorcas made to them.

Acts 9:41

And he took her by the hand, and raised her. And when he had called the holy men and widows, he assigned her alive.

Romans 12:7

either service [or ministry], in ministering; either he that teacheth, in teaching;

1 Corinthians 10:10

Neither grutch ye, as some of them grutched, and they perished of a destroyer [or of the waster].

2 Corinthians 11:22

They be Hebrews, and I; they be Israelites, and I; they be the seed of Abraham, and I;

Deuteronomy 26:12

When thou hast fulfilled the tithe of all thy fruits, in the third year of thy tithes, thou shalt give to the deacon [or Levite], and to the comeling, and to the fatherless, either the motherless child, and to the widow, that they eat within thy gates, and be full-filled.

Philippians 3:5

that was circumcised in the eighth day, of the kin [or the kindred] of Israel, of the lineage of Benjamin, an Hebrew of Hebrews, by the law a Pharisee,

1 Timothy 5:3

Honour thou [the] widows, that be very widows.

1 Timothy 5:9

A widow be chosen [into the temple] not less than sixty years, that was wife of one husband,

Hebrews 13:1

The charity of brotherhood dwell in you,

James 1:27

A clean religion, and unwemmed with God and the Father, is this, to visit fatherless and motherless children, and widows in their tribulation, and to keep himself undefouled from this world.

James 4:5

Whether ye guess, that the scripture saith vainly, The spirit that dwelleth in you, coveteth to envy?

James 5:9

Brethren, do not ye be sorrowful [or do not ye be scornful] each to other, that ye be not deemed. Lo! the judge standeth nigh before the gate.