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II CORINTHIANS ยท Chapter 9
9:1 For as concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous
for me to write to you:
9:2 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 has
provoked very many.
9:3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be
in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, all of you may be ready:
9:4 Lest lest by any means if they of Macedonia come with me, and find
you unprepared, we (that we say not, all of you) should be ashamed in this
same confident boasting.
9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they
would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof all
of you had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of
bounty, and not as of covetousness.
9:6 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly;
and he which sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give;
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that all of
you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good
work:
9:9 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the
poor: his righteousness remains for ever.
9:10 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;)
9:11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes
through us thanksgiving to God.
9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the lack
of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
9:13 While 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;
9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding
grace of God in you.
9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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