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 did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.
Acts 2:41
then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
Acts 4:4
and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.
Acts 5:14
(and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)
Psalm 72:16
There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.
Psalm 110:3
Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Isaiah 27:6
Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world with increase.
Jeremiah 30:19
And gone forth from them hath thanksgiving, And the voice of playful ones, And I have multiplied them and they are not few, And made them honourable, and they are not small.
There
1 Corinthians 10:10
neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love remain;
James 4:5
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
James 5:9
murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.
Grecians
Acts 9:29
and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,
Acts 11:20
and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news -- the Lord Jesus,
Hebrews
2 Corinthians 11:22
Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!
Philippians 3:5
circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
Their
Acts 9:39
And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
Deuteronomy 24:19
'When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
Deuteronomy 26:12
'When thou dost complete to tithe all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, the year of the tithe, then thou hast given to the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, and they have eaten within thy gates, and been satisfied,
Job 29:13
The blessing of the perishing cometh on me, And the heart of the widow I cause to sing.
Job 31:16
If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,
Isaiah 1:17
Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive for the widow.
Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.
Malachi 3:5
And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 23:14
'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.
1 Timothy 5:4
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
James 1:27
religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation -- unspotted to keep himself from the world.