Acts 6:3

They instruct the church to choose seven Spirit-filled, wise men to oversee the food distribution. Practical service is entrusted to godly, qualified believers.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Tim 3:7–15Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Deut 1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
• 1 Tim 5:10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
• Num 27:18–19And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
• Acts 13:2–3As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
• Gen 41:38–39And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
• Num 11:16–25And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
• 3 Jn 1:12Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.
• Job 32:7–8I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
• Isa 28:26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
• Isa 11:2–5And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• 1 Cor 16:3And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
• Isa 28:6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
• 2 Cor 8:19–21And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
• Eph 5:18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Jn 3:14–16We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
• Acts 1:21Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Matt 23:8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
• Acts 22:12And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,
• Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
• Acts 6:6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
• Acts 10:22And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
• 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
• Acts 16:2Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
• Acts 15:23And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
• Acts 9:30Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

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