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2 Corinthians 8:8

First Nations Version

I am not demanding that you give, but, by choosing you as an example for others, I am proving how deep your love truly is.

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I am not telling you what you must do. I am only guiding you by what I have learned as a weak human being.


We should think about how to stir each other up toward love and doing good.


Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give. You should not feel forced to give out of guilt because someone is shaming you for not giving. For the Great Spirit loves it when people give with glad hearts.


We walk with clean hearts as we carry sacred knowledge with patience and kindness. We stay in step with the Holy Spirit as we walk the road of love with our hearts open for all to see.


You have purified your souls by fully following the truth. Now your love for each other can come from a true heart. So keep loving each other in this way.


May Creator’s great kindness rest on all who love the Chosen One, with a love that will never grow old or fade away. Aho! May it be so!


Instead, as true human beings, we will walk out this truth on the path of love. When we become fully grown, we will be like the Chosen One, joined together with him in the same way a body is connected to its head.


I know how ready and willing you are. I brag about you to the sacred families in Land of Tall People (Macedonia). I tell them that the sacred families in Land of Sorrow (Achaia) have been ready to give since last year. It was your eagerness to give that made them want to do the same.


So show these brothers your love in a way that the sacred families can clearly see. This will prove that we had good reason to brag about you.


The reason I give you this counsel is to help you finish what you started to do last year. You were the first to be willing to help,


Now about those who have not yet married. I have no instructions from our Honored Chief in this matter, but I will give you my counsel as one whom our Honored Chief in his kindness has proven to be worthy of trust.


I know nothing more about this from our Honored Chief, but here is my counsel to all the others: If a sacred family member has a wife who does not trust in our spiritual ways, but she is willing to live with him, he should not send her away.


Love with a true heart. Hate what is evil and hold on tight to what is good.





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