Acts 11:29
Good News Translation
The disciples decided that they each would send as much as they could to help their fellow believers who lived in Judea.

New Revised Standard Version
The disciples determined that according to their ability, each would send relief to the believers living in Judea;

Contemporary English Version
The followers in Antioch decided to send whatever help they could to the followers in Judea.

New American Bible
So the disciples determined that, according to ability, each should send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

every.

Ezra 2:69 According to their ability, they gave towards the expenses of the work, sixty-one thousand solids of gold, five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred garments for the priests.

Nehemiah 5:8 And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.

1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of the week, let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him: that when I come, the collections be not then to be made.

2 Corinthians 8:2-4,12-14 That in much experience of tribulation, they have had abundance of joy and their very deep poverty hath abounded unto the riches of their simplicity. . . .

1 Peter 4:9-11 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring, . . .

to send.

Acts 2:44,45 And all they that believed were together and had all things common. . . .

Acts 4:34 For neither was there any one needy among them. For as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the price of the things they sold,

Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. . . .

Luke 12:29-33 And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high. . . .

Romans 15:25-27 But now I shall go to Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints. . . .

1 Corinthians 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints: as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also.

2 Corinthians 9:1,2 For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you. . . .

Galatians 2:10 Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.

Hebrews 13:5,6 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee. . . .

Context
The Church at Antioch
28And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius. 29And the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea. 30Which also they did, sending it to the ancients, by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.…
Cross References
John 2:2
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

Acts 1:15
In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):

Acts 6:1
And in those days, the number of the disciples increasing, there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, for that their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Acts 9:19
And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days.

Acts 9:25
But the disciples, taking him in the night, conveyed him away by the wall, letting him down in a basket.

Acts 11:1
And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Acts 11:26
And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.

Acts 13:52
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.

Acts 14:20
But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and entered into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 24:17
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings and vows.

Acts 11:28
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