Acts 20:35

Paul's Farewell To The Ephesian Elders

³⁴ You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" ³⁶ When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

All Things

In Me

More Blessed to Give

Word of the Lord

Words of the Lord

Jesus

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Matthew 10:8

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

2 Corinthians 8:9

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

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Psalm 41:1-3

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

Psalm 112:5-9

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Isaiah 32:8

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 58:7-12

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Matthew 25:34-40

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Luke 14:12-14

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

Acts 20:20

how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Acts 20:27

for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Romans 15:1

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

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

2 Corinthians 9:6-12

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

2 Corinthians 11:9

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

2 Corinthians 12:13

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Philippians 4:17-20

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

1 Thessalonians 4:11

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Hebrews 12:12-13

Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Hebrews 13:3

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Hebrews 13:16

But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.