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2 Corinthians 9:2

Weymouth NT

For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.

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But when Gallio became Proconsul of Greece, the Jews with one accord made a dead set at Paul, and brought him before the court.

»Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.«

for Macedonia and Greece have kindly contributed a certain sum in relief of the poor among God's people, in Jerusalem.

And I beseech you, brethren –you know the household of Stephanas, how they were the earliest Greek converts to Christ, and have devoted themselves to the service of God's people–

Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God–and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece.

For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you has turned out to be the truth.

I have great confidence in you: very loudly do I boast of you. I am filled with comfort: my heart overflows with joy amid all our affliction.

But in this matter I give you an opinion; for my doing this helps forward your own intentions, seeing that not only have you begun operations, but a year ago you already had the desire to do so.

And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be the accomplishment in proportion to your means.

And more than that, he is the one who was chosen by the vote of the Churches to travel with us, sharing our commission in the administration of this generous gift to promote the Lord's glory and gratify our own strong desire.

Exhibit therefore to the Churches a proof of your love, and a justification of our boasting to these brethren about you.

I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.

so that you became a pattern to all the believers throughout Macedonia and Greece.

And let us bestow thought on one another with a view to arousing one another to brotherly love and right conduct;




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