And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

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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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Excel in Giving

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia: that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and (A)their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

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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 worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He (A)gives to all life, breath, and all things.

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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, (A)that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become (B)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 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,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are 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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(A)as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He [a]should give eternal life to as many (B)as You have given Him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:2 M shall

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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‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts. (A)‘The glory of this latter [a]temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give (B)peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:9 Lit. house

‘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 and His Kingdom

A Psalm of David.

24 The (A)earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell therein.

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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[a] be the Lord God of our fathers, (B)who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 7:27 The Hebrew language resumes in Ezra 7:27.

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 the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, with all whose spirits (A)God [a]had moved, arose to go up and build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 1:5 stirred up

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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Collection for the Judean Saints

16 But thanks be to God who [a]puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:16 NU has put

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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End of the Babylonian Captivity(A)

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

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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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