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 laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
• Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
• Acts 9:39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
• Acts 6:7The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
• Jas 5:9Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
• Acts 2:47praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Acts 11:20But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 5:14More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
• Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
• Acts 2:45They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
• Phil 3:5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
• Acts 9:41He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
• Acts 9:29preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
• 2 Cor 11:22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
• Isa 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
• Isa 27:6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
• Jer 30:19Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
• Ps 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
• Job 31:16“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Deut 26:12When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
• Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
• 1 Tim 5:9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
• 1 Cor 10:10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
• Deut 24:19–21When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Acts 5:28saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
• Jas 4:5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
• 1 Tim 5:4–5But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
• Mal 3:5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Ps 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

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