TSK · Acts 6:1

When you have made an end of 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.

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

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

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

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let brotherly love continue.

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