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1 For truly, concerning the service to the holy ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more. 3 And I sent the brethren, lest our boasting for you be empty in this part; that, as I said, ye might be prepared: 4 Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting. 5 Therefore I thought necessary to beseech the brethren that they go before to you, and prepare beforehand your praise, having been proclaimed beforehand, this same to be prepared, so as praise, and not as covetousness. 6 And this, He sowing sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he sowing in praises shall reap also in praises. 7 Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:1-7, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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