Acts 20:35

Paul calls them to help the weak through hard work, citing Jesus' words that it is more blessed to give than to receive. He grounds Christian generosity in the Lord's own teaching.

Cross-references · 25

• Heb 13:16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Prov 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
• 2 Cor 9:6–12But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• Luke 14:12–14Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
• Matt 10:8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
• 2 Cor 8:9For 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 be rich.
• 1 Th 5:14Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
• Isa 58:7–12Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
• Matt 25:34–40Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
• Rom 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Phil 4:17–20Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
• Ps 112:5–9A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
• Isa 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• Acts 20:27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• Heb 13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
• Acts 20:20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
• Eph 4:28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
• Isa 32:8But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
• Heb 12:12–13Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
• Ps 41:1–3Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• 2 Cor 12:13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
• 2 Cor 11:9And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
• 1 Th 4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 2 Cor 11:12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
• 1 Cor 9:12If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

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