2Corinthians:9

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* For as concerning the service to the saints , it is superfluous for me to write to you (note :){+}(:note ): * for I know your (note :){+}(:note ) readiness , of which I glory on your {+} behalf to them of Macedonia , that Achaia has been prepared for a year past ; and your {+} zeal has stirred up very many of them . * But I have sent the brothers , that our glorying on your (note :){+}(:note ) behalf may not be made void in this respect ; that , even as I said , you {+} may be prepared : * lest by any means , if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you (note :){+}(:note ) unprepared , we--not to mention you {+}--should be put to shame in this confidence . * I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers , that they would go before to you (note :){+}(:note ), and make up beforehand your {+} aforepromised bounty , that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty , and not of extortion . * But this [I say ,] He who sows sparingly will reap also sparingly ; and he who sows bountifully will reap also bountifully . * [Let ] each [do ] according to as he has purposed in his heart : not grudgingly , or of necessity : for God loves a cheerful giver . * And God is able to make all grace abound to you (note :){+}(:note ); that you {+}, having always all sufficiency in everything , may abound to every good work : * as it is written , He has scattered abroad , he has given to the poor ; His righteousness stays forever . * And he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food , will supply and multiply your (note :){+}(:note ) seed for sowing , and increase the fruits of your {+} righteousness : * you (note :){+}(:note ) being enriched in everything to all liberality , which works through us thanksgiving to God . * For the providing of this service of the ministry not only fills up the measure of the wants of the saints , but abounds also through many thanksgivings to God ; * seeing that through the proving [of you (note :){+}(:note )] by this service they glorify God for the obedience of your {+} confession to the good news of Christ , and for the liberality of [your {+}] contribution to them and to all ; * while they themselves also , with supplication on your (note :){+}(:note ) behalf , long after you {+} by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you {+}. * Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift .

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