Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Acts 6:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
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Quick Meaning
Asks the community to select seven reputable Spirit-filled and wise men.
Read It With
- Acts 6:1–6:7
Acts 6:3 asks the community to select seven reputable Spirit-filled and wise men; within Acts 6:1–6:7, the controlling movement is that Greek-speaking Jews report that their widows are neglected in the daily service; the twelve call the community to select seven qualified men, prayer and laying on of hands follow, and the word spreads.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Asks the community to select seven reputable Spirit-filled and wise men. This precise contribution belongs inside “The community addresses a neglected distribution” because Greek-speaking Jews report that their widows are neglected in the daily service; the twelve call the community to select seven qualified men, prayer and laying on of hands follow, and the word spreads.
What Remains True
Because Acts 6:3 asks the community to select seven reputable Spirit-filled and wise men, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 6:1–6:7 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 6:3, first identify this verse role—asks the community to select seven reputable Spirit-filled and wise men; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 6:1–6:7; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The solution does not demean material care, make one office model universal, silence complaints, or erase the widows whose neglect prompted reform.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 6:1–6:7 — The community addresses a neglected distributionSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 6:1–6:7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 6:1-6:7
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 6:1-6:7
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 6:1–6:7
Open source ↗