10Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
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Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
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?
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; …
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)It should seem, by the account Paul gives of himself in this chapter, that, from the very first preaching and planting of Christianity, there was a difference of apprehension between those Christians who had first been Jews and those who had first been Gentiles. Many of those who had first been Jews retained a regard to the ceremonial law, and strove to keep up the reputation of that; but those wh…
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