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1It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,Cross-references: Gen 27:42 · 1Sam 20:23 · 2Ki 22:18 · Job 37:23 · Ps 45:1 · Matt 22:31 · +9 more
2for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.Cross-references: Acts 18:12 · 1Cor 16:15 · 2Cor 1:1 · 2Cor 7:4 · 2Cor 8:8 · 2Cor 8:10 · +4 more
3But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,Cross-references: 1Cor 16:1 · 2Cor 7:14 · 2Cor 8:6 · 2Cor 8:17 · 2Cor 9:4 · Titus 3:1
4lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.Cross-references: Rom 15:26 · 2Cor 8:1 · 2Cor 8:24 · 2Cor 9:2 · 2Cor 11:17
5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.Cross-references: Gen 33:11 · Judg 1:15 · 1Sam 25:27 · 1Sam 30:26 · 2Ki 5:15 · 1Cor 16:2 · +3 more
6Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Cross-references: Ps 41:1 · Prov 11:18 · Prov 11:24 · Prov 19:17 · Prov 22:9 · Eccl 11:1 · +13 more
7Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.Cross-references: Ex 25:2 · Ex 35:5 · Deut 15:7 · Deut 15:14 · 1Chr 29:17 · Prov 11:25 · +9 more
8And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:12 · 2Chr 25:9 · Ps 84:11 · Prov 3:9 · Prov 10:22 · Prov 11:24 · +19 more
9As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”Cross-references: Ps 112:3 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 8:18 · Prov 21:21 · Isa 51:8 · 1Cor 13:13 · +1 more
10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,Cross-references: Gen 1:11 · Gen 47:19 · Gen 47:23 · Prov 11:18 · Eccl 11:6 · Isa 55:10 · +8 more
11you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:12 · 2Chr 31:10 · Prov 3:9 · Mal 3:10 · Rom 12:8 · 1Cor 1:5 · +7 more
12For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,Cross-references: 2Cor 1:11 · 2Cor 8:4 · 2Cor 8:14 · 2Cor 9:1 · Phil 2:25 · Phil 4:18 · +3 more
13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,Cross-references: Ps 50:23 · Matt 5:16 · Matt 9:8 · Luke 6:46 · John 15:8 · Acts 4:21 · +16 more
14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.Cross-references: 2Sam 13:29 · Ezra 6:8 · Ps 41:1 · Prov 11:26 · Luke 16:9 · Rom 1:11 · +10 more
15Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!Cross-references: 1Chr 16:8 · 1Chr 16:35 · Ps 30:4 · Ps 30:12 · Ps 92:1 · Isa 9:6 · +16 more
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