For as
touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you:
02 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.
03 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:
04 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.
05 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.
06 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly
shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
07 Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of
necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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08 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:
09 (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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