2 Corinthians 8:2

Despite severe affliction and deep poverty, the Macedonians' joy overflowed in rich generosity. Real grace produces giving even out of hardship.

Cross-references · 17

• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
• 2 Cor 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
• Deut 15:4However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)
• 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
• 2 Cor 9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;
• Rev 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
• Mark 12:42–44A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.
• Luke 21:1–4He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
• Isa 32:5–8The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.
• 1 Th 1:6You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
• Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
• 2 Cor 9:11you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.
• 1 Th 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
• Acts 2:45–46They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
• Neh 8:10–12Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

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