how I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,

For I have not shrunk back from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Make the weak hands strong, and make the feeble knees secure.

We then who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

If others are partakers of this authority over you, should we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this authority, but endure all things so that we might not hinder the gospel of Christ.

And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked, the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself.

But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be longsuffering towards all.

Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed.

Remember the prisoners as if bound with them; and those who are mistreated, as also being in the body, yourselves.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Blessed is he who gives attention to the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in the time of evil.

Jehovah will sustain him on the bed of illness; You will change his bed of sickness.

A good man deals graciously and lends; he will guide his affairs with justice.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is steadfast, trusting in Jehovah.

He has dispersed abroad, he has given to the poor; his righteousness stands forever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

He who has pity upon the poor lends to Jehovah, and He will make compensation for what he has given.

But the noble devises noble things; and by noble things he shall stand.

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When you see the naked to cover him; and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry out, and He shall say, Here I am. If you take the yoke away from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness;

And Jehovah shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones fat; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

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

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

And the King will answer and say to them, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

Then He also said to him who invited Him, When you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

And you will be blessed, because they do not have the means to repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound for every good work.

Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

For the ministry of this service not only supplies what is lacking to the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.

And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.