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. An Enquiry After Happiness in Three Parts - Sida 11efter Richard Lucas - 1735Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - 476 sidor
...applied the touching commendation of the apostle, when speaking of the poor disciples of Corinth — " In a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality ; for to their power I bear record, yea, and beyond their power,... | |
| James Tate - 1840 - 490 sidor
...sought for : " Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace No. I. ROM. xv. 25, 26. 13 " that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their " joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of " their liberality ; for to their power I bear record, yea, " and beyond their power,... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1840 - 440 sidor
...us to contribute largely to meliorate the condition, and to alleviate the wants of our 2 How that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep ° poverty a Mat. 12. 44. fellow-men. Perhaps the apostle here meant delicately to hint this. He did not therefore... | |
| 1840 - 644 sidor
...brethren, we do you to wit* of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; 2 How that in n great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and •• their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their J liberality. 3 For !of/teir power, I hear record, yea, and beyond their power... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1841 - 422 sidor
...us to contribute largely to meliorate the condition, and to alleviat« the wants of our 2 How that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep " poverty a Mar. 12. 44. fellow-men. Perhaps the apostle here meant delicately to hint this. He did not therefore... | |
| 1842 - 28 sidor
...contribution, to serve the Redeemer's cause. Of many of our people we may say with much confidence, " how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality ; for to their power we bear them record, yea, and beyond their... | |
| 1842 - 506 sidor
...to serve the Redeemer's cause. Of many of our people we may say, with great confidence, " how that, in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality ; for to their power we bear them record, yea, and beyond their... | |
| Church missionary society - 1863 - 614 sidor
...also is learning to read. A LIBERAL CONTRIBUTOR. WE read of the Churches of Macedonia, that, " out of a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy, and their deep povertv, abounded unto the riches of their liberality." Christians of this stamp, Macedonian Christians... | |
| 1897 - 678 sidor
...at Corinth. " We make known to you 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." (2 Cor. viii. 1-4.) Then, by way of incentive, he says to them... | |
| James Dixon - 1843 - 202 sidor
...brethren," he says, " 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. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power... | |
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