About the money. During his eighteen months at Corinth, Paul had asked the brothers to help the poor in Judea, as he also asked the other Gentile churches. Money was taken to Judea more than once. Compare Acts 11:28-30; Acts 24:17 and notes. You must do. We do not have all the letters Paul wrote, but we do have the message from God in the form He intends us to have it (2 Timothy 3:16). Since Paul told the churches in Galatia to raise money in this way, this must have been the "standard practice."

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