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Chapter 9.

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For as touching the ministering to the
saints, it is superfluous for me to write

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to you.

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For I know the forwardness of your mind,
for which I boast of you to them of

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Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year
ago, and your zeal hath provoked very

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many.

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Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our
boasting of you should be in vain,

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in this behalf, that, as I said,
ye may be ready, lest, happily,

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if they of Macedonia come with me and find
you unprepared, we, that we say not ye,

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should be ashamed in this same confident
boasting.

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Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren, that they would go before

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unto you, and make up beforehand your
bounty, whereof ye had noticed before,

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that the same might be ready as a matter
of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

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But this I say, he which soweth sparingly
shall reap also sparingly, and he which

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soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.

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Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give, not grudgingly or

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of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful
giver.

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And God is able to make all grace abound
toward you, that ye, always having all

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sufficiency in all things, may abound to
every good work, as it is written,

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He hath dispersed abroad, He hath given to
the poor, His righteousness remaineth for

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ever.

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Now he that ministereth seed to the sower
both minister bread for your food,

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and multiply your seed sown, and increase
the fruits of your righteousness.

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Being enriched in everything to all
bountifulness, which causeth through us

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thanksgiving to God.

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For the administration of this service not
only supplieth the want of the saints,

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but is abundant also by many thanksgivings
unto God.

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Whilst by the experiment of this
ministration they glorify God for your

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professed subjection unto the gospel of
Christ, and for your liberal distribution

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unto them, and unto all men.

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And by their prayer for you, which long
after you for the exceeding grace of God

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in you.

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Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable
gift.