- Generosity Encouraged
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- And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace
- that God has given the Macedonian churches.
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- Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy
- and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.
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- For I testify that they gave as much as they were able,
- and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own,
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- they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.
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- And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves
- first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will.
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- So we urged Titus, since he had earlier made a beginning,
- to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part.
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- But just as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge,
- in complete earnestness and in your love for us--
- see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
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- I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity
- of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
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- For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor,
- so that you through his poverty might become rich.
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- And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter:
- Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.
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- Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched
- by your completion of it, according to your means.
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- For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to
- what one has, not according to what he does not have.
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- Our desire is not that others might be relieved
- while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.
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- At the present time your plenty will supply what they need,
- so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality,
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- as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much,
- and he who gathered little did not have too little."
- Titus Sent to Corinth
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- I thank God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you.
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- For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you
- with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative.
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- And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised
- by all the churches for his service to the gospel.
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- What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us
- as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor
- the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help.
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- We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift.
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- For we are taking pains to do what is right,
- not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men.
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- In addition, we are sending with them our brother
- who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous,
- and now even more so because of his great confidence in you.
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- As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you;
- as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ.
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- Therefore show these men the proof of your love and
- the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.
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