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1 Corinthians 16:2
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Verse 1 Corinthians 16:2. _UPON THE FIRST_ DAY _OF THE WEEK_] The apostle prescribes the most convenient and proper method of making this contribution. 1. Every man was to feel it his duty to succour...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK - Greek, “On one of the Sabbaths.” The Jews, however, used the word Sabbath to denote the week; the period of seven days; Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:9; Luke 18:12;...
2. EXHORTATIONS AND CONCLUSION. CHAPTER 16 _ 1. Concerning Collections. (1 Corinthians 16:1)_ 2. Ministry. (1 Corinthians 16:5) 3. Greetings. (1 Corinthians 16:19
1 CORINTHIANS 16. VARIOUS BUSINESS AND PERSONAL MATTERS. SALUTATION. First (1 Corinthians 16:1) he gives instructions as to the collection for the poor Christians at Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8 f.*, Ro...
With regard to the collection for the people of Christ, do you too follow the instructions which I gave to the Churches of Galatia. Every first day of the week each of you must put by and save up what...
PRACTICAL PLANS (1 Corinthians 16:1-12)...
UPON. App-104. FIRST, &C. See John 20:1.Acts 20:7. EVERY. each. IN STORE. treasuring up. Greek. _thesaurizo._ See Matthew 6:19. AS, &C. whatever he may be prospered in. Greek. euo
_Upon the first day of the week_ Some Greek copies read the word translated -week" in the _plural_. Hence Tyndale renders, in _some saboth daye_, and Calvin, more literally, _on one of the sabbaths_....
ΣΑΒΒΆΤΟΥ ABCDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Peshito. Rec. σαββάτων. 2. ΚΑΤᾺ ΜΊΑΝ ΣΑΒΒΆΤΟΥ. This verse, Acts 20:7, and Revelation 1:10, are the only passages in Scripture which notice the practice, universal amo...
1 Corinthians 16:1-24. SUNDRY PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS. CONCLUSION...
_THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1-4:_ A terrible famine was taking place in Judea. (Acts 11:27-30) Many of the Christians there found themselves in deep poverty. This situation last...
ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) с _асс._·, распределительное значение предлога: "каждый первый день недели" (RP). ΜΊΑΝ ΣΑΒΒΆΤΟΥ (G1520; G4521), еврейское выражение для обозначения первого дня недели, то есть воскресень...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK— Beza observes here, that Basil joined these words, _upon the first day of the week,_ to the preceding clauses which he reads thus: _Now, concerning the collection for t...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Endow (1 Corinthians 16:1-9) 16 Now concerning the contribution for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2On the first day of every w...
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK - already kept sacred by Christian...
40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...
THE COLLECTION. PERSONAL MESSAGES AND CONCLUSION The Apostle in this chapter instructs the Corinthians to make a collection for the poor Christians in Judæa, intimates his intention of visiting them a...
THE FIRST _day_ OF THE WEEK] viz. Sunday, already the day for Christian assemblies (Acts 20:7); a fit time for an act of Christian love. This v. is the great scriptural justification of the weekly off...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 PLANS ABOUT THE MONEY FOR JERUSALEM 16:1-4 V1 Now I will write about the money for God’s people. Do what I told the churches in Galatia...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. — The Greek phrase (as given in the best MSS.) is literally, _on one of the Sabbaths_ — that being, after a Hebrew idiom, equivalent to “the day next after the Sabbath....
CHAPTER 25 THE POOR IN closing his letter to the Corinthians, Paul, as usual, explains his own movements, and adds a number of miscellaneous directions and salutations. These for the most part relate...
§ 57. CONCERNING THE COLLECTION. During his Third Missionary Journey P. was collecting money for the relief of the Christian poor in Jerusalem. Two chaps. in the middle of 2 Cor. are devoted to this b...
rehearses the rule previously laid down for Galatia: “On every first (day) of the week let each of you by himself (= at home) lay up, making a store (of it), whatever he may be prospered in”. μίαν σαβ...
SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE 1 Corinthians 16:1 It is remarkable that the Apostle can turn from one of his sublimest flights of sacred eloquence to deal with so ordinary a matter as the collection. But, af...
The last chapter of the epistle is local and personal. In the first sentences important principles are revealed as to the true method of Christian giving. It is to be regular and systematic rather tha...
The Collection For the Saints Paul next gave directions concerning what appears to be the same collection mentioned in Romans 15:26-27. Some Jewish converts had been responsible for teaching Gentiles....
Upon the (a) first [day] of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as [God] hath (b) prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. (a) Which in times past was called Sunday, but...
_On the [1] first day of the week, which is Sunday, and our sabbath, not the Jewish sabbath, as St. John Chrysostom observes, so that before this time, the apostles had appointed the first day of the...
“Concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2. Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he hath prospe...
(1) Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. (2) Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God ha...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
2._On one of the Sabbaths. _The end is this — that they may have their alms ready in time. He therefore exhorts them not to wait till he came, as anything that is done suddenly, and in a bustle, is no...
The apostle, in his letter, had treated of the disorder that reigned among these believers, and his spirit was to a certain degree relieved by fulfilling this duty towards them; for, after all, they w...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK,.... In an ancient copy of Beza's, and in some others, it is added, "the Lord's day". Upon some one first day of the week, or more, if there was a necessity for it, unti...
Upon the first _day_ of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as _God_ hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. Ver. 2. _Upon the first day_] The Christian sabbath, t...
_Upon the first day of the week_ So κατα μιαν σαββατων here signifies, the Hebrews using the numeral for the ordinal numbers, as Genesis 1:5, _The evening and the morning were one day;_ that is, the f...
_Now concerning the collection_ During the apostle's eighteen months' abode at Corinth, he had exhorted the brethren there to undertake the making a collection for the poor saints in Judea. But the di...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK; the day set apart and observed by the apostles and Christians as the Lord's day, the Christian Sabbath. LAY BY HIM IN STORE; at home. THAT THERE BE NO GATHERINGS; that...
This last chapter forms a fourth division of the book of I Corinthians, with its simple, practical instructions. The unity of the body of Christ is to be expressed in genuine practical care for the ne...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK LET EACH ONE OF YOU LAY BY HIM IN STORE, AS HE MAY PROSPER, THAT NO COLLECTIONS BE MADE WHEN. COME. 'Upon the first day of the week' -'On the first day of every week'...
1-9 The good examples of other Christians and churches should rouse us. It is good to lay up in store for good uses. Those who are rich in this world, should be rich in good works, 1 Timothy 6:17; 1...
From hence both divers of the ancients, and very many late divines, argue for the change of the sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first. It is plain from hence, that the gospel churches...
Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. [The word "thesaurizoon," translated "in store," means, literally, ...
Polycrates of Ephesus Those who in our own times have revived the observance of the Jewish Sabbath, show us how much may be said on their side,[3]...
1 Corinthians 16:2 On G2596 first G3391 week G4521 let G5087 one G1538 you G5216 lay G5087 (G5720) aside
THE FINAL QUESTION. THE COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF GOD'S NEEDY PEOPLE (16:1-4). Illustrating the previous verse Paul now brings them down to practicalities. They had asked concerning the collecting of m...
'On the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. And when I arrive, whoever you shall approve, them will I send with l...
_Collection for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem,_ 1-4. The occasion of this “collection” was the “great dearth” which a Christian prophet who came from Jerusalem to Antioch predicted would come upon the...
UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK (κατα μιαν σαββατου). For the singular σαββατου (sabbath) for week see Luke 18:12; Mark 16:9. For the use of the cardinal μιαν in sense of ordinal πρωτην after Hebrew...
AS GOD (1 Corinthians 16:1); (1 Corinthians 16:2); (_ See Scofield) - (2 Corinthians 8:1). _...
CONTENTS: Closing instructions and greetings of Paul. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Apollos, Aquila, Priscilla, Stephanas, Fortunatus, Achaicus. CONCLUSION: The Christian should lay by money in...
1 Corinthians 16:1. _The collection for the saints,_ chiefly for the poor ministers of the word. This was to be done once a week, and it is the ancient and best way for poor people to support the gosp...
EVERY SUNDAY. Sunday was the "Lord's Day," and the church would meet to worship God on that day. Compare note on Acts 20:7. [Some calendars show Monday as the "first day of the week," but this is not...
_Now concerning the collection._ COLLECTION IN CHURCH This is in close connection with the sublime argument about the resurrection. There is no gulf between doctrine and duty; rather, most intimate...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 16:2 FIRST DAY OF EVERY WEEK. A Jewish expression for Sunday. It is similar to the phrase used in the Gospels to describe the day when Jesus rose from the dead ...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 The Collection for the Saints and Travel Plans. Paul explains how his future ministry will involve the Corinthians....
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _Now concerning the collection for the saints._ The saints here meant were the poor Christians living at Jerusalem. Cf. ver. 3 and Romans 15:26. For the Christians at Jerusalem, as...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 16:1. THE COLLECTION.—Very fully dealt with in 2 Corinthians 8, 9. Traceable thus; earlier, in Galatians 2:10, Paul’s original pledge that he would “remember the poor,
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 _Directions and arrangements._ 1 CORINTHIANS 16:1 NOW CONCERNING THE COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS. "The saints" are here the poor Christians at Jerusalem ...
And so he writing to them now about taking up a collection for the saints [that are in Jerusalem], as he asked also the churches in the area of Galatia. Now he said on the first day of the week (1 Cor...
2 Chronicles 31:10; 2 Corinthians 8:11; 2 Corinthians 8:12; 2 Corinthians 8:1;...
Upon the first day of the week [κ α τ α μ ι α ν σ α β β α τ ο υ]. Kata has a distributive force, every first day. For week, lit., Sabbath, see on Acts 20:7. Lay by him in store [π α ρ ε α υ τ ω τ ι θ...
THE POSTLUDE 1 Corinthians 16:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Final words are always listened to eagerly among friends. That is the reason we are calling the study for today, a postlude, because they are the...
Let every one — Not the rich only: let him also that hath little, gladly give of that little. According as he hath been prospered — Increasing his alms as God increases his substance. According to thi...