¹¹ For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.

⁸ For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

⁷ For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

¹¹ For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

⁸ but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need `in that' which he wanteth.

¹⁶ Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

¹⁷ But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

¹⁸ `My' Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

² how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

³ For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, `they gave' of their own accord,

⁴ beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

⁵ and `this', not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

⁶ Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

⁷ But as ye abound in everything, `in' faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and `in' all earnestness, and `in' your love to us, `see' that ye abound in this grace also.

⁸ I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

²⁸ And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

²⁹ And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judea:

³⁰ which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

³² And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not one `of them' said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

³³ And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

³⁴ For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

³⁵ and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.

⁴⁵ and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need.

³³ Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

⁴² Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

² The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.