2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (Epistle)
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- But as you abound in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us – see that you abound in this grace also.
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- I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.
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- For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
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- And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago;
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- but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.
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- For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.
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- For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;
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- but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack – that there may be equality.
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- As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”