Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Now
about
the service
to the saints, there
is no
need
for me to write to you .
For
as
touching
the ministering
to the saints, it
is superfluous
for me to write to you :
For I know your eagerness
to
help
, and
I have
been
boasting
to the
Macedonians
that since
last
year
you
in
Achaia were
prepared
to
give.
And your zeal has
stirred
most
of
them
to
do
likewise
.
For I know the
forwardness
of
your mind
, for
which
I boast
of
you
to them
of
Macedonia,
that Achaia was
ready
a
year
ago;
and your zeal hath
provoked
very
many
.
But
I am
sending
the brothers
in
order
that
our boasting about
you in this matter
should
not
prove
empty,
but
that you
will
be
prepared
, just
as I said .
Yet
have
I sent
the brethren,
lest
our boasting of
you should
be
in vain
in
this behalf;
that, as I said ,
ye
may
be
ready:
Otherwise,
if any
Macedonians
come with me and find you unprepared, we —to
say nothing
of
you—would
be ashamed of
having
been
so
confident.
Lest
haply
if they
of
Macedonia
come with me ,
and find you unprepared, we (that
we
say not,
ye)
should
be ashamed in
this
same
confident boasting
.
So
I thought it necessary to urge
the brothers
to
visit
you beforehand
and make arrangements
for
the
bountiful
gift
you
had promised.
This
way
, your
gift
will
be prepared
generously
and not begrudgingly
.
Therefore
I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren,
that
they
would
go
before
unto
you ,
and make up
beforehand
your
bounty,
whereof
ye
had notice
before
, that
the
same
might
be ready,
as
a
matter
of
bounty,
and not as
of
covetousness
.
Remember
this :
Whoever
sows
sparingly will
also
reap sparingly ,
and whoever
sows
generously
will
also
reap generously
.
But
this I
say,
He
which
soweth
sparingly shall
reap also
sparingly ;
and he
which
soweth
bountifully
shall
reap also
bountifully
.
Each
one
should
give
what
he has
decided
in his heart to
give
, not out
of
regret
or compulsion.
For God loves
a cheerful giver.
Every
man
according
as
he purposeth
in his heart, so
let
him
give;
not grudgingly,
or of
necessity:
for God loveth
a cheerful giver.
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 .
And God is able to make all grace abound toward
you ;
that ye
, always
having all sufficiency
in
all
things
, may
abound to
every good work :
As it is written :
“
He has
scattered
abroad His
gifts
to the poor ;
His righteousness endures
forever
. ”
(
As it is written ,
He hath
dispersed
abroad ;
he
hath
given
to the poor :
his righteousness remaineth
for
ever
.
Now He who
supplies
seed to the sower and
bread for food will
supply
and multiply your store
of
seed and will
increase the harvest
of your righteousness .
Now he that
ministereth
seed to the sower both
minister
bread for your
food ,
and multiply your seed sown,
and increase the fruits
of your righteousness ;)
You
will
be
enriched in every way
to be
generous
on
every
occasion
, so
that
through us your
giving
will
produce
thanksgiving to God.
Being
enriched in every thing
to all
bountifulness
, which
causeth
through us thanksgiving to God.
For this
ministry
of service is
not only supplying
the needs
of the saints, but is also overflowing
in
many expressions
of
thanksgiving
to
God .
For the
administration
of this
service not only supplieth
the want
of the saints, but is abundant
also by
many thanksgivings
unto
God ;
Because
of
the proof
this ministry
provides,
the
saints
will
glorify God for your obedient
confession
of
the gospel of Christ, and for the
generosity
of
your contribution
to
them and to
all the
others.
Whiles
by
the experiment
of
this ministration
they
glorify God for your professed
subjection
unto
the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal
distribution
unto
them ,
and unto
all men;
And their
prayers
for
you
will
express
their affection
for you, because
of
the surpassing
grace God has
given
you.
And by
their prayer
for you, which
long
after
you
for
the exceeding
grace of
God in
you.
Thanks be to
God for His indescribable
gift !
Thanks be unto
God for his unspeakable
gift .
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