Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

The abundance

General references

Bible References

In

1 Thessalonians 1:6
And ye were imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much pressure, with joy of the Holy Spirit:
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:
1 Thessalonians 3:3
For none to be shaken in these pressures: for ye yourselves know that for this we are placed.

The abundance

Nehemiah 8:10
And he will say to them, Go ye; eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses, and send portions to him for whom nothing was prepared: for the day is holy to our Lord: and ye shall not grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is your strength.
Acts 2:45
And sold possessions and goods, and divided them to all, as any one had need

Their deep

Mark 12:42
And one poor widow, having come, cast in two small coins, which is a farthing.
Luke 21:1
And having looked np, he saw the rich casting their gifts into the royal treasury.
James 2:5
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
Revelation 2:9
I know thy works, and pressure, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and the blasphemy of them saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but the synagogue of the adversary.

The riches

2 Corinthians 6:10
As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 9:11
Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God.
Deuteronomy 15:4
Only when no needy shall be with thee; for Jehovah blessing will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance to possess it:
Proverbs 11:25
The soul of blessing shall be made fat: also he watering, shall himself drink to the full.
Isaiah 32:5
Liberal shall no more be called to the foolish, and noble shall not be said to the deceiver.

Liberality

2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.
Romans 12:8
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.

General references

Exodus 36:5
And they will say to Moses, saying, The people are multiplying to bring more than enough to the service for the work which Jehovah commanded to do it
Proverbs 3:9
Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce.