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 good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Deut 1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.”
• 1 Tim 5:10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
• Num 27:18–19Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.
• Acts 13:2–3As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
• Gen 41:38–39Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
• Num 11:16–25Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
• 3 Jn 1:12Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
• Job 32:7–8I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
• Isa 28:26For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.
• Isa 11:2–5Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• 1 Cor 16:3When I arrive, I will send whoever you approve with letters to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
• Isa 28:6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
• 2 Cor 8:19–21Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
• Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
• 1 Jn 3:14–16We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• Acts 1:21“Of the men therefore who have accompanied 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, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Matt 23:8But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
• Acts 22:12One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,
• Acts 2:4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
• Acts 6:6whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
• Acts 10:22They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
• 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
• Acts 16:2The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.
• Acts 15:23They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
• Acts 9:30When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus.

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