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- Rom 15:26-27 : 26 For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem. 27 Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.
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- 2 Cor 8:14-152 verses85%
- 2 Cor 8:8-125 verses79%
8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
10And herein {G5129} I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
11But now complete the doing also; that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out of your ability.
12For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.
- 2 Cor 11:7-93 verses77%
7Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?
8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;
9and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself].
- 2 Cor 8:19-213 verses77%
19and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter] [of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness:
20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:
21for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
- 2 Cor 12:13-142 verses76%
13For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except {G3361} [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.
14Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
- 2 Cor 9:4-85 verses75%
4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this {G5287} confidence.
5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be {G3779} ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
6But this [I say,] He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth {G1909} bountifully shall reap also {G1909} bountifully.
7[ Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not {G1537} grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
- 2 Cor 8:1-44 verses74%
1Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;
2how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and {G2596} their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,
4beseeching us with much entreaty in {G2248} regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
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13Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto [my] children), be ye also enlarged.
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8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
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34Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.