2 Corinthians 8 (New American Standard)

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Great Generosity

1 Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been ¹given in the churches of ²Macedonia, 2 that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the ³wealth of their liberality. 3 For I testify that ⁴according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord, 4 begging us with much urging for the ⁵favor ^aof participation in the ^b⁶support of the ^csaints, 5 and this, not as we had ^dexpected, but they first ⁷gave themselves to the Lord and to us by ⁸the will of God. 6 So we ⁹urged ¹⁰Titus that as he had previously ¹¹made a beginning, so he would also complete in you ¹²this gracious work as well. 7 But just as you ¹³abound ¹⁴in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the ^elove we inspired in you, see that you ¹⁵abound in this gracious work also. 8 I ¹⁶am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also. 9 For you know ¹⁷the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ¹⁸though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 10 I ¹⁹give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin ²⁰a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it. 11 But now finish ^fdoing it also, so that just as there was the ²¹readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability. 12 For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable ²²according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. 13 For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality - 14 at this present time your abundance being a supply for ²³their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for ²⁴your need, that there may be equality ; 15 as it is written, "²⁵HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK." 16 But ²⁶thanks be to God who ²⁷puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of ²⁸Titus. 17 For he not only accepted our ²⁹appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord. 18 We have sent along with him ³⁰the brother whose fame in the things of the ³¹gospel has spread through ³²all the churches ; 19 ³³and not only this, but he has also been ³⁴appointed by the churches to travel with us in ³⁵this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our ³⁶readiness, 20 ^gtaking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift ; 21 for we ³⁷have regard for what is honorable, not only in ³⁸the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you. 23 As for ³⁹Titus, he is my ⁴⁰partner and fellow worker ^hamong you; as for our ⁴¹brethren, they are ⁱ⁴²messengers of the churches, ⁴³a glory to Christ. 24 Therefore ^jopenly before the churches, ^kshow them the proof of your love and of our ⁴⁴reason for boasting about you.

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