Acts 9:39

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

“You shall not steal.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

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

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.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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

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.

All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, and gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

A gracious woman obtains honor, but violent men obtain riches.

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.

She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

In those days, she became sick, and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,