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1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. 3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, you may be ready: 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, you) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [(a matter of)] bounty, and not as [(of)] covetousness. 6 But this [(I say)], He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, [(so let him give)]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God [(is)] able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all [(things)], may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remains for ever. 10 Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for [(your)] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings to God; 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for [(your)] liberal distribution to them, and to all [(men; 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks [(be)] to God for his unspeakable gift. —- Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 </box| Christopedia copyright © 2019. All rights reserved.> </box> </box>