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 increased; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was very greatly multiplied, and a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.
Acts 2:41
Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.
Acts 4:4
But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become about five thousand.
Acts 5:14
and believers were more than ever added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;)
Psalm 72:16
There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.
Psalm 110:3
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in holy splendour: from the womb of the morning shall come to thee the dew of thy youth.
Isaiah 27:6
In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Jeremiah 30:19
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished; and I will honour them, and they shall not be small.
There
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love abide.
James 4:5
Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously?
James 5:9
Complain not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged. Behold, the judge stands before the door.
Grecians
Acts 9:29
and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and discussed with the Hellenists; but they sought to kill him.
Acts 11:20
But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.
Hebrews
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also.
Philippians 3:5
as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
Their
Acts 9:39
And Peter rising up went with them, whom, when arrived, they brought up into the upper chamber; and all the widows stood by him weeping and shewing him the body-coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thy produce in the third year, the year of tithing, thou shalt give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat in thy gates, and be filled;
Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Isaiah 1:17
learn to do well: seek judgment, gladden the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Matthew 23:14
no translation
1 Timothy 5:4
but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.