Acts 20:34-35

20:34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine ¹  provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me. 20:35 By all these things, ²  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ³  the weak, ⁴  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ⁵ 

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¹ tn The words “of mine” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to clarify whose hands Paul is referring to.

² sn The expression By all these things means “In everything I did.”

³ tn Or “must assist.”

⁴ tn Or “the sick.” See Eph 4:28.

⁵ sn The saying is similar to Matt 10:8. Service and generosity should be abundant. Interestingly, these exact words are not found in the gospels. Paul must have known of this saying from some other source.