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\subsection{II Corinthians 9}
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\VS{1} For concerning the service to the holy [ones] it is superfluous for me to be
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writing to you.
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\VS{2} For I knew your eagerness of which I boast concerning
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you in Macedonia, that Achaia was prepared since last year, and your zeal
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has provoked many.
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\VS{3} So I sent the brothers, lest our boast concerning
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you be emptied in this matter, in order that, just as I was saying, you be
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prepared,
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\VS{4} lest if the Macedonians come with me and find you
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unprepared, we be shamed --- in order that we not say: You [be shamed] --- in this
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assurance.
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\VS{5} I considered it necessary therefore to call upon the
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brothers, in order that they come to you and prepare beforehand your
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previously promised bounty, [that] this [be] prepared as bounty and not as exaction.
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\VS{6} So this [I say], the [one] sowing sparingly --- sparingly will also reap, and the
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[one] sowing bountifully --- bountifully will also reap.
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\VS{7} Each, just as he
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has decided in his heart, [let him give], not from pain or necessity, for God agape-loves
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[a] cheerful giver.
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\VS{8} For God is able to abound every grace to you in
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order that, in everything always having every sufficiency, you abound to
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every good work,
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\VS{9} just as it is written:
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\begin{verse}
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He has scattered, he has given to the needy, \\
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His justness abides to eternity.
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\end{verse}
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\VS{10} So the [one] supplying seed to the [one] sowing and bread for food will
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provide and will multiply our seed and will increase the products [of your]
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justness,
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\VS{11} in everything being made rich for every generosity, which
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works, through us, thanksgiving to God.
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\VS{12} For the service of this
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ministry not only supplies the needs of the holy [ones], but also [is] abundant
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through many thanks to God,
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\VS{13} [who are] through proof of this service
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glorifying God for the obedience [of your] confession to the good-news of Christ,
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and [for the] liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,
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\VS{14} and [for] their
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entreaty concerning you, longing for you on account of the surpassing grace
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of God among you.
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\VS{15} Grace [be] to God for his indescribable gift.
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