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| 9:1 |
For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;
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| 9:2 |
for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, [namely], that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
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| 9:3 |
But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;
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| 9:4 |
lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to speak of you) should be put to shame by this confidence.
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| 9:5 |
So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, that the same might be ready as a bountiful gift, and not affected by covetousness.
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| 9:6 |
Now this [I say], he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
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| 9:7 |
Let each one [do] just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
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| 9:8 |
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
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| 9:9 |
as it is written, "He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, His righteousness abides forever."
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| 9:10 |
Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;
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| 9:11 |
you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.
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| 9:12 |
For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God.
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| 9:13 |
Because of the proof given by this ministry they will glorify God for [your] obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,
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| 9:14 |
while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.
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| 9:15 |
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
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