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

General references

Philippians 2:5

Bible References

Shewed

how I did not shrink from proclaiming to you anything that would be profitable, and [from] teaching you in public and from house [to house],

How that

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

If others share this right over you, do we not [do so] even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all [things], in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].

Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,

Remember the prisoners, as [though you were] fellow-prisoners; [remember] the mistreated, as [though] [you] yourselves also are being [mistreated] in the body.

It is

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

[It goes] well [for] a man [who] is gracious and lends, [who] conducts his {business properly}.

He who lends to Yahweh [is] he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him.

But [the] nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things.

[Is it] not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home} [the] poor, [the] homeless. When you see [the] naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.

Heal those who are sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, expel demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, [you] who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that [although he] was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.

Now [the point is] this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account.

And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

General references

Think this in yourselves which [was] also in Christ Jesus,