2 Corinthians 9
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For as touching the ministering to the
saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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for I know the forwardness of your mind,
for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achai'a was
ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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But this I say, He which soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully
shall reap also bountifully.
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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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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:
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(as it is written,
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He hath dispersed abroad; |
he hath given to the poor: |
his righteousness remaineth for ever. Ps.
112.9 |
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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower
both minister bread for your food, Is. 55.10 and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness:)
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being enriched in every thing to all
bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to
God.
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For the administration of this service
not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by
many thanksgivings unto God;
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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;
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and by their prayer for you, which long
after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
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Thanks be unto God for his
unspeakable gift.
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