Acts 2:46

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Daily

Breaking

Acts 2:42

Acts 20:7

From house to house

Acts 1:13

1 Corinthians 11:20

Did

1 Corinthians 10:30

Singleness

Colossians 3:22

General references

Luke 2:20

Hebrews 13:1

Bible References

Daily

All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth [hour].

Every day, both in the temple [courts] and from house [to house], they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news [that] the Christ [was] Jesus.

And they were {continually} in the temple [courts] praising God.

Breaking

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.

And on the first [day] of the week, [when] we had assembled to break bread, Paul began conversing with them, [because he] was going to leave on the next day, and he extended [his] message until midnight.

From house to house

And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying--Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James [son] of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas [son] of James.

Therefore, [when] you come together in the same [place], it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

Did

And he brought them up into [his] house [and] set a meal before [them], and rejoiced greatly that he had believed in God with his whole household.

And you shall eat there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors}, you and your family [in] which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that [is] in your {towns} and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there.

Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."

Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.

But give [as] charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?

Singleness

Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, [that] I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.

if [it is] one who exhorts, by exhortation; one who gives, with sincerity; one who leads, with diligence; one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ,

Slaves, obey your {human} masters in everything, not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

General references

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.

Brotherly love must continue.