On the first day of every week,(A) each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.(B)

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(A)On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.

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On (A)the first day of every week, each of you is to [a]put aside and save as he may prosper, so that (B)no collections need to be made when I come.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 16:2 Lit put with himself

On the first day of each week, you should each put aside a portion of the money you have earned. Don’t wait until I get there and then try to collect it all at once.

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Coming to See You

16 1-4 Regarding the relief offering for poor Christians that is being collected, you get the same instructions I gave the churches in Galatia. Every Sunday each of you make an offering and put it in safekeeping. Be as generous as you can. When I get there you’ll have it ready, and I won’t have to make a special appeal. Then after I arrive, I’ll write letters authorizing whomever you delegate, and send them off to Jerusalem to deliver your gift. If you think it best that I go along, I’ll be glad to travel with them.

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