³ Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.^(A)

³⁹ Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows^(A) stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

The Choosing of the Seven

6 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing,^(A) the Hellenistic Jews^[a](B) among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows^(C) were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.^(D)

¹⁴ Be joyful^(A) at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns.

¹¹ And rejoice^(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name^(B)—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites^(C) in your towns, and the foreigners,^(D) the fatherless and the widows living among you.^(E)

²⁹ so that the Levites (who have no allotment^(A) or inheritance^(B) of their own) and the foreigners,^(C) the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied,^(D) and so that the Lord your God may bless^(E) you in all the work of your hands.

¹⁸ He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow,^(A) and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.^(B)