Acts 9:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

And all

Acts 9:41

Acts 8:2

1 Thessalonians 4:13

And shewing

While

Matthew 17:17

Luke 24:44

John 17:12

Bible References

And all

Then he gave her his hand, raised her, and, after calling the saints and the widows he presented her to them alive.

Devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him,

We would like you, brothers, to understand about those who are asleep in death. You must not grieve for them, like the rest of men who have no hope.

And shewing

At Joppa there was a disciple called Tabitha (which may be translated Dorcas, or 'Gazelle'), a woman whose life was full of good actions and of charitable practices.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

I was unclothed and you clothed me, I was ill and you looked after me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

The poor you always have beside you, but you will not always have me.

She has done all she could ??she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me."

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Suppose some brother or sister is ill-clad and short of daily food;

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

While

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

When I was with them, I kept them by the power of thy Name which thou hast given me; I guarded them, and not one of them perished ??only the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.