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| [1]About the ministration but of the holy ones superfluous make it I if write I to you |
[1]And concerning the ministration by the saints, it would be superfluous for me to write to you: |
| [2]Knew I for the readiness of your minds and because of this I boasted of you to the Maqedonians that Akaia ready was from last year and zeal your many has excited |
[2]for I know the goodness of your mind; and therefore I gloried of you before the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many. |
| [3]I sent but the brothers lest would be empty our boasting that we boasted in you about this matter that as ? you will be prepared |
[3]Yet I sent the brethren, lest the glorying with which we have gloried in you in regard to this matter, should prove vain; and that ye, as I said, may be ready; |
| [4]Lest come with me Maqedonia and find you when not are prepared you and be ashamed we that not we would say that you would be ashamed by boasting that which we boasted |
[4]so that, if the Macedonians should come with me, and should find you unprepared, we-not to say, ye-should be put to shame for that glorying in which we gloried. |
| [5]Because of this it has been taken care of by me to ask of my brethren these to come beforehand to you and to prepare blessing that for from the first I was heard that it should be prepared in this way as a blessing not to be as if of greed |
[5]Therefore I was careful to request these my brethren, to go before me unto you, that they might make up this benefaction, of which ye were advised long before to have it ready, as being a benefaction, and not a matter of cupidity. |
| [6]This but whoever sows frugally also frugally reaps and whoever sows with bounty with bounty shall reap |
[6]And this [I say]: He that soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall also reap bountifully. |
| [7]Every man as he is in his mind not as that from grief or as that from compulsion the giver Himself for joyful loves Alaha |
[7]Every man, according to his own views, not with sadness, not by constraint: for the Lord loveth a joyous giver. |
| [8]Comes that but by the hand of Alaha every favor to increase in you that always in all things that whatever is sufficient for you shall be to you and you will superabound in every work good |
[8]For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work. |
| [9]As that is written "He has dispersed and He has given to the poor and His righteousness stands for eternity |
[9]As it is written, He hath dispersed and given to the poor; and his righteousness is established for ever. |
| [10]He but that He gives seed to the sower and bread for food He shall give and He shall multiply your seed and increase the fruit of your righteousness |
[10]Now he that giveth seed to the sower, and bread for food, may he give and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: |
| [11]That in all things you may be enriched with the entire right of an heir that which perfects by us thanksgiving to Alaha |
[11]so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God. |
| [12]Because the labor of service this not does only the want of the saints satisfy but also abounds in thanksgiving much to Alaha |
[12]For the performance of this ministration, not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God. |
| [13]Because of the experience for of service this to Alaha they glorify that you submitted to the confession of the Gospel of The Messiah and you became partners in your right of heirship with them and with every person |
[13]For on account of the test of this ministration, we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, ye communicate with them and with all men: |
| [14]And prayer they bring for you with love of many because of the abundance of the grace of Alaha that is upon you |
[14]and they put up prayer for you, with much love, because of the abundance of the grace of God that is upon you. |
| [15]Thank but to Alaha for His gift that un- is -utterable |
[15]Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. |