Acts 20:34
“Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.”
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
Cross-References
“And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.”
“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.”
“And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:”
“Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?”
“She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.”