1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week, let each one of you save as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.
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Genesis 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.
Genesis 30:30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
Genesis 33:11Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
Haggai 2:16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
Mark 12:41Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 16:2-5
Contributions for the Poor. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. 3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. 4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. In this chapter Paul closes this long… Read the whole commentary →