Acts 2:46
Good News Translation
Day after day they met as a group in the Temple, and they had their meals together in their homes, eating with glad and humble hearts,

New Revised Standard Version
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,

Contemporary English Version
Day after day they met together in the temple. They broke bread together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely,

New American Bible
Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

daily.

Acts 1:14 All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of prayer.

Acts 5:42 And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

Luke 24:53 And they were always in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

breaking.

Acts 2:42 And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.

Acts 20:7 And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he continued his speech until midnight.

from house to house.

Acts 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus and Simon Zelotes and Jude the brother of James.

1 Corinthians 11:20-22 When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. . . .

did.

Acts 16:34 And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God.

Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And you shall eat there in the sight of the Lord your God: and you shall rejoice in all things, whereunto you shall put your hand, you and your houses wherein the Lord your God hath blessed you. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

Nehemiah 8:10 And he said to them: Go, eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.

Luke 11:41 But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and behold, all things are clean unto you.

1 Corinthians 10:30,31 If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? . . .

singleness.

Psalm 86:11 Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

Matthew 6:22 The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.

Romans 12:8 He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with carefulness; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

Colossians 3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

Context
The Fellowship of Believers
45Their possessions and goods they sold and divided them to all, according as every one had need. 46And continuing daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart: 47Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord increased daily together such as should be saved.…
Cross References
Luke 24:30
And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread and blessed and brake and gave to them.

Acts 2:42
And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.

Acts 5:42
And every day they ceased not, in the temple and from house to house, to teach and preach Christ Jesus.

Acts 20:7
And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow. And he continued his speech until midnight.

1 Corinthians 10:16
The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

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