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For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: |
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for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them. |
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But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared: |
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lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence. |
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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion. |
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But this {cf15i I say}, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. |
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{cf15i Let} each man {cf15i do} according as he hath purposed in his heart; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. |
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And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work: |
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as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever. |
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And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: |
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ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. |
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For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God; |
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seeing that through the proving {cf15i of you} by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of {cf15i your} contribution unto them and unto all; |
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while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. |
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Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. |
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