Acts 6:1

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

and laid them at the apostles’ feet, and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

You will know also that your offspring will be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

Let brotherly love continue.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.