The Concordant Literal New Testament

Paul To The Corinthians (II.)

¹ For, indeed, concerning the dispensation for the saints, it is superfluous for me to be writing to you.
² For I am aware of your eagerness, of which I am boasting over you to the Macedonians, that "Achaia has been prepared a year past." And your zeal provokes the majority.
³ Yet I send the brethren, lest our boasting over you may be made void in this particular, that you may be prepared according as I said,
⁴ lest somehow, if the Macedonians should be coming together with me and finding you unprepared, we may be disgraced (not that we should say you!) in this assumption of boasting.
⁵ I deem it necessary, then, to entreat the brethren that they may be coming before to you and should be adjusting beforehand your bounty as promised before. This to be ready thus, as a bounty and not as greed,
⁶ yet as this: who is sowing sparingly, sparingly shall be reaping also, and who is sowing bountifully, bountifully shall be reaping also,
⁷ each according as he has proposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of compulsion, for the gleeful giver is loved by God.
⁸ Now God is able to lavish all grace on you, that, having all contentment in everything always, you may be superabounding in every good work,
⁹ according as it is written, He scatters, He gives to the drudges, His righteousness remains for the eon.
¹⁰ Now may He Who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, be furnishing and multiplying your seed and be making the product of your righteousness grow,
¹¹ being enriched in everything, for all the generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,
¹² for the dispensation of this ministry not only is replenishing the wants of the saints, but is superabounding also through much thanksgiving, to God,
¹³ through the testedness of this dispensation, glorifying God at the subjection of your avowal to the evangel of Christ, and in the generosity of the contribution for them and for all,
¹⁴ and in their petition for you, longing to be acquainted with you, because of the transcendent grace of God on you.
¹⁵ Now thanks be to God for His indescribable gratuity!

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