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1 For, respecting the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you; 2 for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past; and your zeal stirred up the majority of them. 3 But I sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that even as I said, ye may be prepared; 4 Lest by any means, if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not ye) should be put to shame in this confidence. 5 I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brethren, that they should go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that this may be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness. 6 But I say this: He that sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. 7 Let each one do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:1-7, Worrell New Testament. Public domain.
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