45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
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But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; …
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? …
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-47)We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church , of the first days of it, its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence . I. They kept close to holy ordinances, and abounded in all instances of piety and devotion, for Christianity, admitted in the power of it, w…
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