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God Gives Most

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, namely, that ^(C3)Achaia has been prepared since ^(C4)last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.³ But I have sent the brethren, 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 otherwise if any ^(C1)Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to speak of you--will be put to shame by this confidence.⁵ So I thought it necessary to urge the ^(C1)brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised ^(F1)(C2)bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a ^(F1)(C3)bountiful gift and not ^(F2)(C4)affected by covetousness.

⁶ Now this I say, ^(C1)he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows ^(F1)bountifully will also reap ^(F1)bountifully.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 all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;⁹ as it is written,

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