If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”

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If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away.”

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Encouragement to Give Generously

We want you to know, brothers,[a] about the grace of God that has been (A)given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and (B)their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:1 Or brothers and sisters

The Collection for the Lord’s People

And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian(A) churches. In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.(B)

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25 nor is he served by human hands, (A)as though he needed anything, since he himself (B)gives to all mankind (C)life and breath and everything.

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25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.(A)

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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that (A)though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

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For you know the grace(A) of our Lord Jesus Christ,(B) that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor,(C) so that you through his poverty might become rich.(D)

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35 (A)The Father loves the Son and (B)has given all things into his hand.

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35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.(A)

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10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
    the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 (A)I know all the birds of the hills,
    and all that moves in the field is mine.

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10 for every animal of the forest(A) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.(B)
11 I know every bird(C) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields(D) are mine.

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since (A)you have given him authority over all flesh, (B)to give eternal life to all (C)whom you have given him.

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For you granted him authority over all people(A) that he might give eternal life(B) to all those you have given him.(C)

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(A)The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. (B)The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And (C)in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”

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‘The silver is mine and the gold(A) is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory(B) of this present house(C) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,(D)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

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The King of Glory

A Psalm of David.

24 (A)The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,[a]
    the world and those who dwell therein,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 24:1 Or and all that fills it

Psalm 24

Of David. A psalm.

The earth is the Lord’s,(A) and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it;(B)

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27 (A)Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (B)who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,

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27 Praise be to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who has put it into the king’s heart(A) to bring honor(B) to the house of the Lord in Jerusalem in this way

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Then rose up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, (A)everyone whose spirit (B)God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.

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Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin,(A) and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved(B)—prepared to go up and build the house(C) of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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Commendation of Titus

16 But (A)thanks be to God, (B)who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you.

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Titus Sent to Receive the Collection

16 Thanks be to God,(A) who put into the heart(B) of Titus(C) the same concern I have for you.

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The Proclamation of Cyrus

(A)In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (B)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so (C)that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:

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Cyrus Helps the Exiles to Return(A)

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah,(B) the Lord moved the heart(C) of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:

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