Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Grecians
Hebrews
Their
Bible References
When
Acts 6:7
And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.
Acts 2:41
Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
Acts 4:4
But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.
Acts 5:14
And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;
Psalm 72:16
May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.
Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
Jeremiah 30:19
And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
There
1 Corinthians 10:10
And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.
Hebrews 13:1
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
James 4:5
Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
James 5:9
Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
Grecians
Acts 9:29
Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.
Acts 11:20
But some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, when they came to Antioch, gave the good news about the Lord Jesus to the Greeks.
Hebrews
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Philippians 3:5
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
Their
Acts 9:39
And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full;
Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.