TSK · Acts 20:35

For the music director; a psalm of David. How blessed is the one who treats the poor properly! When trouble comes, may the LORD deliver him.

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

He said also to the man who had invited him,“When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

If others receive this right from you, are we not more deserving?But we have not made use of this right. Instead we endure everything so that we may not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.

The one who steals must steal no longer; instead he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.

Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees,

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.