Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Now
about
the service
to
the saints, there
is no
need
for me to write to you .
For,
indeed,
concerning
the ministration
that
`is'
for
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 have
known
your readiness
of
mind
, which
in
your
behalf
I boast
of
to Macedonians ,
that Achaia hath
been
prepared a
year
ago,
and the
zeal of you
did
stir
up
the
more
part,
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 .
and
I sent
the brethren,
that our boasting on
your
behalf
may
not
be
made
vain
in this respect;
that, according
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
if Macedonians may
come with me ,
and find you unprepared, we --
we
may
be
put
to shame
(that
we
say not
--
ye)
in
this
same
confidence
of 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
.
Necessary,
therefore,
I thought `
it '
to exhort
the brethren,
that
they
may
go
before
to you ,
and may
make up
before
your formerly
announced
blessing,
that
this
be ready,
as
a
blessing,
and not as
covetousness
.
Remember
this: Whoever
sows
sparingly will
also reap sparingly,
and whoever
sows
generously
will
also reap generously.
And
this: He
who
is
sowing
sparingly ,
sparingly
also shall
reap ;
and he
who
is
sowing
in
blessings,
in
blessings
also shall
reap ;
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 .
each one ,
according
as
he doth
purpose
in heart, not out of sorrow
or out
of
necessity,
for a cheerful giver doth
God
love,
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 all grace to
cause
to
abound to you, that in every
thing
always
all sufficiency
having, ye
may
abound to
every good work ,
As it is
written :
“
He has
scattered
abroad His
gifts
to the poor ;
His righteousness endures
forever.”
(according
as it hath
been
written ,
`
He dispersed
abroad ,
he
gave
to the poor ,
his righteousness doth
remain
to
the
age,')
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 .
and
may
He who is
supplying
seed to the sower ,
and bread for food ,
supply 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 .
in every thing
being
enriched
to all
liberality
, which
doth
work
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 .
because
the
ministration
of this
service not only is
supplying the wants
of the saints, but is also abounding
through
many thanksgivings
to 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.
through
the proof of
this ministration
glorifying
God for the
subjection
of
your confession to
the good
news
of the
Christ, and `
for '
the liberality
of the
fellowship
to them and to all ,
And their
prayers
for
you
will
express
their affection
for
you
, because of the surpassing
grace God has
given
you .
and by
their supplication
in
your
behalf
, longing
after
you
because of the exceeding
grace of
God upon
you ;
Thanks be
to God for His indescribable
gift!
thanks also
to God for His unspeakable
gift!
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