2Corinthians:8:16-9:5
riversident@2Corinthians:8:16 @ Thanks be to God who puts into the heart of Titus the same interest in you.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:17 @ For he welcomed our appeal, but being unusually interested comes to you of his own choice.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:18 @ With him we are sending the brother whose praise for service to the good news has spread through all the churches,
riversident@2Corinthians:8:19 @ and not only that, but he was appointed by the churches as our fellow traveler in this gracious errand carried out by us to the glory of the Lord himself and by our own eager desire.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:20 @ We are taking care that no one shall blame us for our administration of this bountiful fund,
riversident@2Corinthians:8:21 @ for we are providing arrangements honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:22 @ We are sending along with them also our brother whose earnestness we have tested many times in many ways, and who is now especially earnest because of his great confidence in you.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:23 @ If any one asks about Titus, he is my intimate friend and fellow worker for you. If it is our brethren, they are the messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
riversident@2Corinthians:8:24 @ Show them in the sight of the churches your love and the ground of our boasting to them about you.
riversident@2Corinthians:9:1 @ REGARDING the service to the holy, it is superfluous for me to write to you.
riversident@2Corinthians:9:2 @ For I know your readiness and I am boasting about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has stimulated the most of them.
riversident@2Corinthians:9:3 @ I am sending the brethren that our boasting about you may not be proved in this matter an empty boast, so that you may be ready as I have said,
riversident@2Corinthians:9:4 @ and if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to say you, may not be made ashamed of this confidence.
riversident@2Corinthians:9:5 @ So I think it necessary to urge the brethren to go on in advance to you and prepare before-hand your promised gift, that it may be ready as a gift and not as if extorted.
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