Acts 6:1 - Modern King James Version

¹ And in those days, the disciples having multiplied, a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews occurred, because their widows were overlooked in the daily serving.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW ABOUT this time, when the number of the disciples was greatly increasing, complaint was made by the Hellenists (the Greek-speaking Jews) against the [native] Hebrews because their widows were being overlooked and neglected in the daily ministration (distribution of relief).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Common English Bible

¹ About that time, while the number of disciples continued to increase, a complaint arose. Greek-speaking disciples accused the Aramaic-speaking disciples because their widows were being overlooked in the daily food service.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ In those days, as the number of disciples was increasing, there occurred a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were treated with disdain in the daily ministration.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ AND in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Acts 6:1 Tagairtí Cros

Job 29:13

The blessing of the perishing came on me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing.

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Psalm 110:3

Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You have the dew of Your youth.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek judgment, reprove the oppressor. Judge the orphan, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 27:6

He shall cause those who come from Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Jeremiah 30:19

And out of them shall come thanksgiving, and the voice of those who rejoice. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Acts 11:20

And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene; who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 11:26

And finding him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them a whole year they were assembled in the church. And they taught a considerable crowd. And the disciples were first called Christian in Antioch.

Acts 11:29

And the disciples, as any were prospered, determined each of them to send for ministry to those brothers who lived in Judea,

Acts 2:41

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:45

And they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Acts 2:47

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

Acts 4:35

and they laid them down at the apostles' feet. And distribution was made to every man according as he had need.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who heard the Word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

Acts 5:14

and more believing ones were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

Acts 5:28

saying, Did we not strictly command you that you not teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood on us.

Acts 6:2

And the Twelve called near the multitude of the disciples and said, It is not pleasing to us, leaving the Word of God, to serve tables.

Acts 6:7

And the Word of God was increasing. And the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplying exceedingly; even a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.

Acts 9:29

And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and argued with the Hellenists. But they seized him in order to kill him.

Acts 9:39

And rising up, Peter went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. And all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

Acts 9:41

And he gave her his hand and lifted her up. And when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

Romans 12:7

or ministry, in the ministry; or he who teaches, in the teaching;

1 Corinthians 10:10

Nor murmur as some of them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

2 Corinthians 11:22

Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they the seed of Abraham? I also!

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have made an end of tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, the year of tithing, and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow (that they may eat inside your gates and be filled),

Philippians 3:5

I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. As regards the Law, I was a Pharisee;

1 Timothy 5:3

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:9

Do not let a widow be enrolled having become less than sixty years old, the wife of one man,

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

James 4:5

Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy?

James 5:9

Do not grudge against one another, brothers, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.