<p>16:2- see on Acts 2:45.</p><p><i>Upon the first day of the week let each one of you, as your income allows, put some money aside and store it up so that no collections are needed when I come</i>- Paul didn't want them to take up one big collection when he was personally present, because this might mean that their motivation was emotional. Giving should be from the heart but also not on the cusp of emotional or personal pressure. &quot;Each one of you&quot; may suggest that Paul was wanting each of them, even the very poor, to donate something- and not to leave the giving to a few. &quot;As your income allows&quot; suggests giving should not be irresponsible. And it is emotional, cusp-of-the-moment motivations which lead to irresponsible giving. &quot;Lay by him in store&quot; (AV) suggests they were not to put money into a church collection bag which was then held by a treasurer, but were to save the money themselves, and then donate it when Paul arrived in person. The giving envisaged was therefore all very personal. The two Greek words in this phrase &quot;lay by him in store&quot; are taken exactly from the Lord's teaching in Lk. 12:21 about the man who &quot;lays up treasures for himself&quot; but was not rich towards God. The same word for &quot;put... aside money&quot; is translated &quot;lay up&quot; in the Lord's appeal to lay up wealth in Heaven and not on earth (Mt. 6:19,20). Paul is clearly teaching that such 'saving up' of their pennies in order to give to the poor Jewish brethren was indeed building up wealth before God in Heaven.</p>