These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Acts 6
Brit Hadashah 15 verses
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About this time, as the number of disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were habitually overlooked in the daily ministration.
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Acts 4:35 Acts 9:29 Acts 2:41 Acts 9:39 Acts 6:7 Acts 9:41 Acts 2:47 Acts 11:20 Acts 4:4 2 Corinthians 11:22 Acts 5:14 Philippians 3:5 Job 29:13 Job 31:16 James 4:5 Acts 2:45 Psalm 72:16 1 Timothy 5:4-5 Psalm 110:3 Isaiah 27:6 Matthew 23:13 Hebrews 13:1 Jeremiah 30:19 James 5:9 Isaiah 1:17 1 Timothy 5:9 James 1:27 Deuteronomy 24:19-21 1 Corinthians 10:10 Deuteronomy 26:12 Malachi 3:5 Acts 5:28 Ezekiel 22:7 -
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So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, “It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of Elohim’s Message and minister at tables.
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Therefore, brethren, pick out from among yourselves seven men of good repute, full of the and of wisdom, and we will appoint them to undertake this duty.
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James 3:17-18 Deuteronomy 1:13 1 John 3:14-16 Isaiah 28:6 Acts 9:30 Job 32:7-8 Genesis 41:38-39 Acts 10:22 Acts 16:2 Isaiah 28:26 2 Corinthians 8:19-21 Numbers 27:18-19 Acts 22:12 Ephesians 5:18 1 Timothy 3:7-15 James 1:17 1 Corinthians 12:8 Matthew 23:8 Acts 2:4 Isaiah 11:2-5 Acts 13:2-3 3 John 1:12 1 Corinthians 16:3 Acts 15:23 Numbers 11:16-25 Acts 6:6 1 Timothy 5:10 Acts 1:21 - 4 But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message.”
- 5 The suggestion met with general approval, and they selected Stephen, a man full of and of the Holy , Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.
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These men they brought to the Apostles, and, after prayer, they laid their hands upon them.
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- 7 Meanwhile Elohim’s Message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in very greatly increased, and very many priests obeyed the .
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And Stephen, full of and power, performed great marvels and signs among the people.
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But some members of the so-called ‘Synagogue of the Freed-men,’ together with some Cyrenaeans, Alexandrians, Cilicians and men from Roman Asia, were roused to encounter Stephen in debate.
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- 10 They were quite unable, however, to resist the wisdom and the with which he spoke.
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Then they privately put forward men who declared, “We have heard him speak blasphemous things against and against .”
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- 12 In this way they excited the people, the Elders, and the Scribes. At length they came upon him, seized him with violence, and took him before the Sanhedrin.
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Here they brought forward false witnesses who declared, “This fellow is incessantly speaking against the Holy Place and the Law.
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For we have heard him say that , the Nazarene, will pull this place down to the ground and will change the customs which handed down to us.”
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Acts 21:21 Daniel 9:26 Acts 15:1 Hebrews 9:9-11 Isaiah 66:1-6 Hebrews 8:6-13 Galatians 3:23 Acts 26:3 Hebrews 10:1-18 Isaiah 66:19-21 Acts 25:8 Jeremiah 26:12 Galatians 3:19 Isaiah 65:15 Hebrews 12:26-28 Matthew 26:61 Mark 14:58 Zechariah 11:1 Matthew 24:1-2 Zechariah 14:2 Luke 13:34-35 Micah 3:12 Jeremiah 7:4-14 Luke 21:6 Jeremiah 26:18 Luke 21:24 Hosea 3:4 Galatians 4:3-5 John 4:21 Acts 28:17 Hebrews 7:11-19 Jeremiah 26:6-9 -
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At once the eyes of all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin were fastened on him, and they saw his face looking just like the face of an .
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