TSK · Acts 6:1

Presentation of the Third-year Tithe When you finish tithing all your income in the third year(the year of tithing), you must give it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that they may eat to their satisfaction in your villages.

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you.

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

So Peter got up and went with them, and when he arrived they brought him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him, crying and showing him the tunics and other clothing Dorcas used to make while she was with them.

But there were some men from Cyprus and Cyrene among them who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks too, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.

Final Exhortations Brotherly love must continue.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?