 | David Daniell - Religion - 1995 - 488 pages
...were exceeding poor, yet have they given exceeding richly, and that in singleness. For to their powers (I bear record) yea and beyond their power, they were willing of their own accord, and prayed us with great instance that we would receive their beneftt, and suffer... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Bible - 1996 - 424 pages
...of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,... | |
 | Elizabeth Whitney Crisci - Business & Economics - 1997 - 136 pages
...church leaders lead by example! Remember what God said: "How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded...they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering of the... | |
 | Dr. Paul Chappell - Christian leadership - 2000 - 238 pages
...churches of Macedonia [of which Thcssaloiiica was a part]; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded...they were willing of themselves; Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the... | |
 | Charles D. Mallary - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 484 pages
...and argue, to gain their consent to give, but with joyful haste would each and all come forward, " praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift," and bear it speedily to the needy and perishing. There are half a million Baptists in the United States,... | |
 | John Phillips - Religion - 2002 - 324 pages
...Paul eulogizes the deep poverty out of which they gave: "How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality" (8:2). The Macedonian churches faced the most difficult circumstances. The believers there knew the... | |
 | Missions, Irish - 1851 - 250 pages
...grace of God bestowed upon the churches of 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." (2 Cor. viii., 1, 2.) " There is at this moment a demand for at least ten new schools, in so many several... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - Bible - 2004 - 638 pages
...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 unto the riches of their liberality. 3. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;... | |
 | William R. Newell - Religion - 1938 - 596 pages
...what they gave — "of their own accord and even beyond their power"; "in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality I" — they first, "having given their own selves to the Lord"— evidently in special meetings for... | |
 | John L. Langston, John Langston Iii - Religion - 2004 - 218 pages
...live righteously before God and man. Go and do likewise! How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 2 Cor 8:2 Paul, the Apostle, is amazed at their generosity under such circumstances. The churches of... | |
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of 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. 
