Acts 6:1-6

Seven Chosen to Serve

1 Now in these days ¹when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists^[a] arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in ²the daily distribution.

2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, "It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.

3 ³Therefore, brothers,^[b] pick out from among you seven men ⁴of good repute, ⁵full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

4 But ⁶we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, ⁷a man full of faith and ⁸of the Holy Spirit, and ⁹Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, ¹⁰a proselyte of Antioch.

6 These they set before the apostles, and ¹¹they prayed and ¹²laid their hands on them.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 2:41, 47; Acts 4:4; Acts 5:14; [ver. 7]
• 2. [Acts 4:35]
• 3. [Deuteronomy 1:13]
• 4. [1 Timothy 3:7]
• 5. ver. 5; Acts 7:55; Acts 11:24; [Luke 1:15; Luke 4:1]
• 6. See Acts 1:14
• 7. Acts 11:24
• 8. ver. 3
• 9. Acts 8:5; Acts 21:8
• 10. Acts 2:11; Acts 13:43; Matthew 23:15
• 11. Acts 1:24; Acts 13:3
• 12. 1 Timothy 4:14; 1 Timothy 5:22; 2 Timothy 1:6; [Acts 8:17; Acts 9:17; Acts 19:6; Hebrews 6:2]

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, Greek-speaking Jews
• [b]. Or brothers and sisters