2 Corinthians 8:1
NOW we inform you, brethren, of the grace of God which hath been bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
In Context
Cross References
Acts 11:23Who, when he arrived there, and beheld the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted them all, with full purpose of heart to adhere to the Lord.
Romans 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints that are at Jerusalem.
2 Corinthians 8:2that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, hath more abounded to the riches of their liberality.
2 Corinthians 9:4Lest haply if the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) may be confounded in this confidence of boasting. I
2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was with you, and in want, I was burdensome to no man; for my want the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied; and on every occasion I have kept myself from being burdensome, and will keep myself.
Colossians 1:29for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:1
In this and the following chapter Paul is exhorting and directing the Corinthians about a particular work of charity—to relieve the necessities of the poor saints at Jerusalem and in Judea, according to the good example of the churches in Macedonia, Rom. xv. 26 . The Christians at Jerusalem, through war, famine, and persecution, had become poor, many of them had fallen into decay, and perhaps most of them were but poor when they first embraced Christianity; for Christ said, "The poor receive the gospel." Now Paul,… Read the whole commentary →