 | 1834 - 640 pages
...ver. 1-4, and you will discover the particular which remains to be sought for: " .Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the...poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality: for to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power, they were 'willing of themselves; praying... | |
 | 1834 - 452 pages
...1 — 4, and you will discover the particular which remains to be sought for: "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the...trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and thuir deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality: for to their power, I bear record,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...brethren, we make known to you the charity «f God, which is given by the congregations of Macedonia; that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their extreme poverty, superabounded to the riches of their liberality: that to their power, (I bear witness,)... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...fully brings out, in the eighth and ninth chapters of his Second Epistle to the Corinthians. He says, ' We do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the...poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.' This accords with the whole tenor of Scripture, which constantly declares that all that is really good... | |
 | Edward L. Haygood, Edward Hay Good - 1982 - 33 pages
...learned the blessed principle that it is more blessed to give than to receive. "Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia" (II Corinthians 8:1). All they did was give an offering. Yet the Bible declares that the grace of God... | |
 | Robert E. Picirilli - 1987 - 454 pages
...Thessalonica, and Berea. 1. The manifestation of grace in Macedonia (w. 1, 2) 1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1964 - 324 pages
...Corinthians 8:2,3, where he shows that the giving of those Macedonians was woven with sacrifice,— "In a great trial of affliction the abundance of their...poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. . . . Beyond their power, they were willing." What an example to the whole Christian world! How ashamed... | |
 | Henry William Soltau - 1880 - 500 pages
...beautiful example of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. Opening their hearts, so that "in a great trial of affliction, the abundance...poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power I bear record, 'yea, and beyond their power, they were willing of themselves ; praying... | |
 | Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 pages
...Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: 2 el T - in the riches of their liberality. 3 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1994 - 324 pages
...church therefore prove their love and justify his boasting of them, vs. 23. 24. 1. Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. Moreover (S«) marks the transition to a new subject. We do you to wit, (yv<op^o/xev,) 'we cause you... | |
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Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 
