Acts 20:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Shewed

Acts 20:20

How that

It is

Hebrews 13:16

General references

Philippians 2:5

Bible References

Shewed

"You know that I never shrank from declaring to you anything that was profitable, nor from teaching you publicity and in your homes,

How that

Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

If others share this authority over you, do not I far more? Yet I have not availed myself of it, but am patiently enduring; so that I may not in any way hinder the progress of Christ's gospel.

Even when I lacked the actual necessities of life while I was with you, I was a burden to no one; for whatever I lacked, the brothers from Macedonia supplied, when they came. So I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

In what respect, then, were you inferior to the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.

Wherefore lift up your listless hands, strengthen your feeble knees;

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, are in the body.

It is

"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

"Then he, the King will say to those on his right hand. "'Come, my Father's blessed ones, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Mark this; he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account.

And forget not to be kind and liberal; for with that sort of sacrifice God is well pleased.

General references

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,