Acts 6:2
So the
Exodus 18:17-26
Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you are doing is not good.
Numbers 11:11-13
So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You been so hard on Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have placed the burden of all these people on me?
Deuteronomy 1:9-14
“I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.
Nehemiah 6:3
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave to come down to [meet with] you?”
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John replied to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you and obey you rather than God, you must judge [for yourselves];
Acts 21:22
What then should be done? They will certainly hear that you have arrived.
Acts 25:27
For it seems absurd and unreasonable to me to send a prisoner [to Rome] without indicating the charges against him.”
2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier in active service gets entangled in the [ordinary business] affairs of civilian life; [he avoids them] so that he may please the one who enlisted him to serve.