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2 Corinthians 9:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. "
2 Corinthians 9:5
Verse in Context
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Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that ➔ we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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2 Corinthians 9:1
"For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:"
2 Corinthians 9:2
"For I know the forwardness of ➔ your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many."
2 Corinthians 9:3
"Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:"
2 Corinthians 9:4
"Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that ➔ we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting."
2 Corinthians 9:6
"But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them."
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