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2 Corinthians 9:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.

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While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews made a combined attack on Paul, and brought him before the Governor's Bench,

After some years' absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings;

For Macedonia and Greece have been glad to make a collection for the poor among Christ's People at Jerusalem.

I have another request to make of you, Brothers. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ's People.

To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ's People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth.

I have the utmost confidence in you; I am always boasting about you. I am full of encouragement and, in spite of all our troubles, my heart is overflowing with happiness.

I am only making suggestions on this matter; for this is the best course for you, since you were a year before others, not only in taking action, but also in showing your readiness to do so.

And now I want you to complete the work, so that its completion may correspond with your willing readiness--in proportion, of course, to your means.

And not only that, but he has been elected by the Churches to accompany us on our journey, in Keynesian with this expression of your love, which we are personally administering to the honor of the Lord, and to show our deep interest.

Show them, therefore--so that the Churches may see it-- the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.

I am not laying a command upon you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.

And so became a pattern to all who believed in Christ throughout Macedonia and Greece.

Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.




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