Acts 9:39

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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

1 Thessalonians 4:13

And shewing

While

General references

Exodus 35:25

Job 31:19

Bible References

And all

And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall perish.

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

And shewing

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, who by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.

I have shown you all things, that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came to me.

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily food,

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

While

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest to me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

General references

And all the women that were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;