2Corinthians:8

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nasb @2Corinthians:8:1 @Now , brethren , we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia , nasb @2Corinthians:8:2 @that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality . nasb @2Corinthians:8:3 @For I testify that according to their ability , and beyond their ability , they gave of their own accord , nasb @2Corinthians:8:4 @begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints , nasb @2Corinthians:8:5 @and this , not as we had expected , but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God . nasb @2Corinthians:8:6 @So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning , so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well . nasb @2Corinthians:8:7 @But just as you abound in everything , in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you , see that you abound in this gracious work also . nasb @2Corinthians:8:8 @I am not speaking this as a command , but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also . nasb @2Corinthians:8:9 @For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ , that though He was rich , yet for your sake He became poor , so that you through His poverty might become rich . nasb @2Corinthians:8:10 @I give my opinion in this matter , for this is to your advantage , who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this , but also to desire to do it . nasb @2Corinthians:8:11 @But now finish doing it also , so that just as there was the readiness to desire it , so there may be also the completion of it by your ability . nasb @2Corinthians:8:12 @For if the readiness is present , it is acceptable according to what a person has , not according to what he does not have . nasb @2Corinthians:8:13 @For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction , but by way of equality -- nasb @2Corinthians:8:14 @at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need , so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need , that there may be equality ; nasb @2Corinthians:8:15 @as it is written , " HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH , AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK ." nasb @2Corinthians:8:16 @But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus . nasb @2Corinthians:8:17 @For he not only accepted our appeal , but being himself very earnest , he has gone to you of his own accord . nasb @2Corinthians:8:18 @We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches ; nasb @2Corinthians:8:19 @and not only this , but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work , which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself , and to show our readiness , nasb @2Corinthians:8:20 @taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift ; nasb @2Corinthians:8:21 @for we have regard for what is honorable , not only in the sight of the Lord , but also in the sight of men . nasb @2Corinthians:8:22 @We have sent with them our brother , whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things , but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you . nasb @2Corinthians:8:23 @As for Titus , he is my partner and fellow worker among you ; as for our brethren , they are messengers of the churches , a glory to Christ . nasb @2Corinthians:8:24 @Therefore openly before the churches , show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you .

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