TSK · Acts 6:1

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled.

If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

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

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. [

and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need.

But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

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

And Peter arose and went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Greeks also, 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 hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Let love of the brethren continue.

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?