Acts 6:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

Acts 6:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 1:14
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
1 Timothy 4:13-16
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. …
Philippians 1:9-11
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; …
Acts 2:42
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Having seen the church’s struggles with her enemies, and triumphed with her in her victories, we now come to take a view of the administration of her affairs at home; and here we have, I. An unhappy disagreement among some of the church-members, which might have been of ill consequence, but was prudently accommodated and taken up in time (Acts 6:1): When the number of the disciples (for so Christi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

2-4. the multitude--the general body of the disciples. It is not reason--The word expresses dislike; that is “We cannot submit.” to leave the word of God--to have our time and attention withdrawn from preaching; which, it thus appears, they regarded as their primary duty. to serve tables--oversee the distribution of provisions.