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2 Corinthians 9

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There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints.

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For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.

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But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.

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For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to say anything about you--would be ashamed of having been so confident.

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So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.

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Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

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Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

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And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

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As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

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Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

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You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

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This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.

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Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else.

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And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

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Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

2 Corinthians 10

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By the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you--I, Paul, who am "timid" when face to face with you, but "bold" when away!

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I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.

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For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.

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The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

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And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

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You are looking only on the surface of things. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as he.

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For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

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I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters.

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For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing."

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Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.

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We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.

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We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the field God has assigned to us, a field that reaches even to you.

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We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ.

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Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our area of activity among you will greatly expand,

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so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in another man's territory.

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But, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

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For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

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