Key Verse Spotlight
2 Corinthians 8:2 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. {liberality: Gr. simplicity}”
2 Corinthians 8:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
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. {liberality: Gr. simplicity}
For to {their} power, I bear record, yea, and beyond {their} power {they were} willing of themselves;
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and {take upon us} the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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