"How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of th…" — 2 Corinthians 8:2

2 Corinthians 8:2 · KJV

“How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. {liberality: Gr. simplicity}”

— 2 Corinthians 8:2

Verse 1

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

Verse 3

For to {their} power, I bear record, yea, and beyond {their} power {they were} willing of themselves;

2 Corinthians 8 — Context

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. {liberality: Gr. simplicity}

For to {their} power, I bear record, yea, and beyond {their} power {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 saints.

Cross References

James 2:5

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? {of the: or, of that}

Proverbs 11:25

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. {liberal...: Heb. soul of blessing}

2 Corinthians 6:10

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and {yet} possessing all things.

Deuteronomy 15:4

Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance to possess it: {Save...: or, To the end that there be no poor among you}

1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. {there unto: or, to sufferings, or, to persecution}

2 Corinthians 9:13

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for {your} liberal distribution unto them, and unto all {men};

Revelation 2:9

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and {I know} the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but {are} the synagogue of Satan.

Mark 12:42-44

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. {mites: it is the seventh part of one piece of that brass money}