So I considered it necessary to urge the (A)brothers that they go on ahead to you and arrange in advance your previously promised [a](B)generous gift, that the same would be ready as a [b](C)generous gift, and not as one grudgingly given due to greediness.

Now I say this: (D)the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows [c]generously will also reap [d]generously. Each one must do just as he has decided in his heart, not (E)reluctantly or under compulsion, for (F)God loves a cheerful giver. And (G)God is able to make all grace overflow to you, so that, always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings
  4. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings

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