Romans 15:27
Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Cor 9:11 : 11 If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
- Gal 6:6 : 6 But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.
- Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).
- Rom 11:17 : 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
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25 But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
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2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
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28 When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
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12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
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30 which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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9 and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name."
10 Again he says, "Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people."
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34 You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
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14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
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18 But if he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, put that to my account.
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