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2 Corinthians 9
2 Corinthians 9:1 2 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, ye may be ready:
4 Lest haply
if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we
(that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident
boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up
beforehand your bounty, whereof ye 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 soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man
according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not
grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you;
that ye, 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
remaineth for ever.
10 Now he that ministereth 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
causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12 For the
administration of this service not only supplieth the want of
the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they
glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of
Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto
all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after
you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks be
unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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