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 multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 4:4
But many of them who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
Acts 5:14
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
Psalm 72:16
There shall be a handful of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.
Psalm 110:3
Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
Isaiah 27:6
He shall cause them that come from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and 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 few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
There
1 Corinthians 10:10
Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
James 4:5
Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
James 5:9
Murmur not one against another, brethren, lest you be judged: behold, the judge stands before the door.
Grecians
Acts 9:29
And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Hellenists: but they went about to slay him.
Acts 11:20
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were come to Antioch, spoke unto the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Hebrews
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the descendants of Abraham? so am I.
Philippians 3:5
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
Their
Acts 9:39
Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithes of your increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and have given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled;
Job 29:13
The blessing of him that was ready to perish 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Matthew 23:14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.