Acts 6:1

As the church grows, Greek-speaking believers complain their widows are neglected in the daily food distribution. Growth brings real tensions that must be addressed with care.

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• Acts 4:35and lay them at the apostles’ feet for distribution to anyone as he had need.
• Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
• Acts 9:39So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
• Acts 6:7So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.
• Jas 5:9Do not complain about one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at the door!
• Acts 2:47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
• Heb 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Acts 11:20But some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 5:14Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
• Acts 4:4But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
• Acts 2:45Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.
• Phil 3:5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
• Acts 9:41Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
• Acts 9:29He talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him.
• 2 Cor 11:22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
• Isa 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
• Isa 27:6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
• Jer 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
• Ps 72:16May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
• Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
• Deut 26:12When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.
• Job 29:13The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
• 1 Tim 5:9A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,
• 1 Cor 10:10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
• Deut 24:19–21If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
• Acts 5:28“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said. “Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us responsible for this man’s blood.”
• Jas 4:5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
• 1 Tim 5:4–5But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Jas 1:27Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
• Ps 110:3Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

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