Acts 2:46

A Generous And Growing Church

⁴⁵ They sold their property and their goods, and shared the proceeds among them all, according to their individual needs. ⁴⁶ Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the Breaking of Bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the good-will of all the people. ⁴⁷ And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of Salvation.

Breaking Bread

Breaking of Bread

From House to House

With One Accord

Day After Day

Praising God

Acts 5:42

And never for a single day, either in the Temple Courts or in private houses, did they cease to teach, or to tell the Good News of Jesus, the Christ.

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the Breaking of Bread, Paul, who was intending to leave the next day, began to address those who were present, and prolonged his address till midnight.

Luke 24:53

And they were constantly in the Temple Courts, blessing God.

Acts 2:42

They devoted themselves to the teaching of the Apostles and to the Common Life of the Church, to the Breaking of the Bread and to the Prayers.

Acts 1:13-14

When they reached Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room, where they were staying. There were there Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Acts 3:1

One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o'clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.

Acts 16:34

Afterwards he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.

Matthew 6:22

The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;

Luke 11:41

Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.

Luke 24:30

After he had taken his place at table with them, he took the bread and said the blessing, and broke it, and gave it to them.

Acts 5:21

When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The High Priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leading men among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

Romans 12:8

The speaker to his exhortation. Let the man who gives in charity do so with a generous heart; let him who is in authority exercise due diligence; let him who shows kindness do so in a cheerful spirit.

1 Corinthians 10:30-31

If, for my part, I take the food thankfully, why should I be abused for eating that for which I give thanks?

1 Corinthians 11:20-22

When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper;

2 Corinthians 1:12

Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this--Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.

2 Corinthians 11:3

Yet I fear that it may turn out that, just as the Serpent by his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may have lost the loyalty and purity due from you to the Christ.

Ephesians 6:5

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;

Colossians 3:22

Slaves, always obey your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had but to please men, but giving them ungrudging service, in your reverence for the Master.