Acts 6:2

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

Exodus 18:17-26

“What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’ father-in-law said to him.

Numbers 11:11-13

So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?

Deuteronomy 1:9-14

“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.

Nehemiah 6:3

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”

Acts 4:19

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

Acts 21:22

So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you’ve come.

Acts 25:27

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not to indicate the charges against him.”

2 Timothy 2:4

No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

The twelve

General references

Bible References

The twelve

Acts 21:22
So what is to be done? They will certainly hear that you’ve come.

It

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;
Acts 25:27
For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not to indicate the charges against him.”

We should

Exodus 18:17
“What you’re doing is not good,” Moses’ father-in-law said to him.
Numbers 11:11
So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?
Deuteronomy 1:9
“I said to you at that time: I can’t bear the responsibility for you on my own.
Nehemiah 6:3
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”
2 Timothy 2:4
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.

General references

Acts 15:6
Then the apostles and the elders assembled to consider this matter.

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