2Corinthians:9

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* For as touching the ministering to the saints , it is superfluous for me to write to you : * For I know the forwardness of your mind , for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia , that Achaia was ready a year ago ; and your zeal hath provoked very many . * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * But this I say , He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly ; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully . * Every man according as he purposeth in his heart , so let him give ; not grudgingly , or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver . * 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 : * (As it is written , He hath dispersed abroad ; he hath given to the poor : his righteousness remaineth for ever . * Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food , and multiply your seed sown , and increase the fruits of your righteousness ;) * Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness , which causeth through us thanksgiving to God . * For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints , but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God ; * Whiles 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 ; * And by their prayer for you , which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you . * Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift .

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