¹⁸ Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.

^17 (A)Not that I seek the gift, but I seek ^(B)the fruit that increases to your credit.^{[a] 18} I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, ^(C)having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, ^(D)a fragrant offering, ^(E)a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

¹² “When you have finished paying all ^(A)the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is ^(B)the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, ¹³ then you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, ^(C)nor have I forgotten them. ^14 (D)I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it ^(E)to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

^6 (A)Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

¹⁸ but ^(A)you shall eat them before the Lord your God in ^(B)the place that the Lord your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And ^(C)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake. ^19 (D)Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

³⁶ “You shall make ^(A)a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ^(B)‘Holy to the Lord.’

²⁵ At present, however, ^(A)I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints. ²⁶ For ^(B)Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem. ²⁷ For they were pleased to do it, and indeed ^(C)they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.

³ When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo. ⁴ And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And ^(A)through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. ⁵ When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, ^(B)accompanied us until we were outside the city. And ^(C)kneeling down on the beach, we prayed