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| [1]For, indeed, concerning the ministration that [is] for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you, |
[1]For as concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: |
| [2]for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part, |
[2]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 incited very many. |
| [3]and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready, |
[3]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: |
| [4]lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting. |
[4]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. |
| [5]Necessary, therefore, I thought [it] to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness. |
[5]Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up before hand your bounty, of which ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness. |
| [6]And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; |
[6]But this I say, He who soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he who soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully. |
| [7]each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, |
[7]Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or by constraint: for God loveth a cheerful giver. |
| [8]and God [is] able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, |
[8]And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: |
| [9](according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') |
[9](As it is written, He hath dispersed; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. |
| [10]and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, |
[10]Now may 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;) |
| [11]in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God, |
[11]Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. |
| [12]because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God, |
[12]For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings to God; |
| [13]through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and [for] the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all, |
[13]While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them, and to all men; |
| [14]and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you; |
[14]And by their prayer for you, who long after you, for the exceeding grace of God in you. |
| [15]thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift! |
[15]Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. |