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title: 2 Corinthians 8
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createdAt: 2024-09-15T01:58:53.689Z
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**1 **Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; **2 **How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. **3 **For to *their* power, I bear record, yea, and beyond *their* power *they were* willing of themselves; **4 **Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and *take upon us* the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. **5 **And *this they did*, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. **6 **Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

**7 **Therefore, as ye abound in every *thing, in* faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and *in* all diligence, and *in* your love to us, *see* that ye abound in this grace also. **8 **I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

**9 **For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. **10 **And herein I give *my* advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. **11 **Now therefore perform the doing *of it*; that as *there was* a readiness to will, so *there may be* a performance also out of that which ye have. **12 **For if there be first a willing mind, *it is* accepted according to that a man hath, *and* not according to that he hath not. **13 **For *I mean* not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: **14 **But by an equality, *that* now at this time your abundance *may be a supply* for their want, that their abundance also may be *a supply* for your want: that there may be equality: **15 **As it is written, He that *had gathered* much had nothing over; and he that *had gathered* little had no lack.

**16 **But thanks *be* to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. **17 **For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. **18 **And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise *is* in the gospel throughout all the churches; **19 **And not *that* only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and *declaration of* your ready mind: **20 **Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: **21 **Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. **22 **And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which *I have* in you. **23 **Whether *any do inquire* of Titus, *he is* my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren *be inquired of, they are* the messengers of the churches, *and* the glory of Christ. **24 **Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.