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1OF course I know it is really quite superfluous for me to be writing to you about this matter of giving to fellow Christians,

2for I know how willing you are. Indeed I have told the Macedonians with some pride that "Achaia was ready to undertake this service twelve months ago". Your enthusiasm has consequently stimulated most of them.

3I am, however, sending the brothers just to make sure that our pride in you is not unjustified and that you are ready, as I said you were.

4For it would never do if some of the Macedonians were to accompany me on my visit to you and find you unprepared! We (not to speak of you) should be acutely embarrassed, just because we had been so confident in you.

5This is my reason, then, for urging the brothers to visit you before I come myself, so that they can get your promised gift ready in good time. For I should like it to be a spontaneous gift, and not money squeezed out of you.

6All I will say is that poor sowing means a poor harvest, and generous sowing means a generous harvest.

7Let everyone give as his heart tells him, neither grudgingly nor under compulsion, for God loves the man who gives cheerfully.

8God can give you more than you can ever need, so that you may always have sufficient for yourselves and enough left over to give to every good cause.

9As the scripture says: He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.

10He who gives the seed to the sower and bread to eat, will give you the seed of generosity to sow and will make it grow into a harvest of good deeds done.

11The more you are enriched the more scope will there be for generous giving, and your gifts, administered through us, will mean that many will thank God.

12For your giving does not end in meeting the wants of your fellowChristians. It also results in an overflowing tide of thanksgiving to God.

13Moreover, your very giving proves the reality of your faith, and that means that men thank God that you practise the gospel of Christ that you profess to believe in, as well as for the actual gifts your fellowship makes to them and to others.

14And yet further, men will pray for you and feel drawn to you because you have obviously received a generous measure of the grace of God.

15Thank God, then, for his indescribable generosity to you!



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