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 don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• 2 Cor 9:6–12Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Luke 14:12–14He 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.
• Matt 10:8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
• 2 Cor 8:9For 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.
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Isa 58:7–12Isn’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?
• Matt 25:34–40Then 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;
• Rom 15:1Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Phil 4:17–20Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
• Ps 112:5–9It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
• Isa 35:3Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
• Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
• Heb 13:3Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
• Acts 20:20how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
• Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
• Isa 32:8But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.
• Heb 12:12–13Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
• Ps 41:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
• 2 Cor 12:13For 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.
• 2 Cor 11:9When 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.
• 1 Th 4:11and 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;
• 2 Cor 11:12But 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.
• 1 Cor 9:12If 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.

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