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God Loves a Cheerful Giver

¹ For ^(C1)it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ^(C2)ministry to the ^(F1)saints;² for I know your readiness, of which I ^(C1)boast about you to the ^(C2)Macedonians, that ^(C3)Achaia has been prepared since ^(C4)last year, and your zeal stirred up most of them.³ But I have sent the brothers, in order that our ^(C1)boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, ^(C2)as I was saying, you may be prepared;⁴ lest if any ^(C1)Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours.⁵ So I regarded it necessary to encourage the ^(C1)brothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised ^(C2)blessing, so that the same would be ready as a ^(C3)blessing and not as a ^(F1)(C4)begrudging obligation.

⁶ Now this I say, ^(C1)he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows with blessing will also reap with blessing.⁷ Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not ^(C1)grudgingly or under compulsion, for ^(C2)God loves a cheerful giver.⁸ And ^(C1)God is able to make every grace abound to you, so that in everything at every time having every sufficiency, you may have an abundance for every good deed;⁹ as it is written,

"^(C1)HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE NEEDY,
HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ^(F1)STANDS FOREVER."