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The New Testament: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: Chapter 9
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For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.
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But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:
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lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.
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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
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But this [I say,] He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
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[Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
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as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.
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And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
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ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.
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For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;
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seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;
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while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
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Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
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The New Testament: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: Chapter 10
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Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
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yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
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(for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds),
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casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
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and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
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