2 Corinthians 9:1-5 (New International Version)

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1 There is no need¹ for me to write to you about this service² to the saints.³ 2 For I know your eagerness to help,⁴ and I have been boasting⁵ about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year⁶ you in Achaia⁷ were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. 3 But I am sending the brothers⁸ in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.⁹ 4 For if any Macedonians¹⁰ come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to say anything about you--would be ashamed of having been so confident. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers¹¹ to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift,¹² not as one grudgingly given.¹³

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