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2 Corinthians 8:4
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2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and atheir deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.  
3 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing,
4 imploring us with much urgency1 that we would receive the gift and athe fellowship of the ministering to the saints.  
5 And not only as we had hoped, but they first agave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the bwill of God.  
6 So awe urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well.  
7 But as ayou abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—see bthat you abound in this grace also.  

Christ Our Pattern

8 aI speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.  
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, athat though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become brich.  
10 And in this aI give advice: bIt is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and cwere desiring to do a year ago;  
11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.
12 For aif there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.  
13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;
14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality.
15 As it is written, a“He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”  

Collection for the Judean Saints

16 But thanks be to God who1 puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.  
17 For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord.
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2 Corinthians 8:4

Praying us with much entreaty - Earnestly entreating me to receive the contribution and convey it to the poor and afflicted saints in Judea.

And take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints - Greek, "that we would take the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints." They asked of us to take part in the labor of conveying it to Jerusalem. The occasion of this distress which made the collection for the saints of Judea necessary, was probably the famine which was predicted by Agabus, and which occurred in the time of Claudius Caesar; see note on Acts 11:28. Barnabas was associated with Paul in conveying the contribution to Jerusalem; Acts 6:30. Paul was unwilling to do it unless they particularly desired it, and he seems to have insisted that some person should be associated with him; II Corinthians 8:20; I Corinthians 16:3-4.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Corinthians 8:4:

Isaiah 32:2
Romans 12:13
Romans 15:26
1 Corinthians 16:3
2 Corinthians 9:4
2 Corinthians 13:14
Galatians 2:10

 

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