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2 Corinthians 8:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have. "

2 Corinthians 8:12

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10 I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.

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2 Corinthians 8:1

"Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,"

2 Corinthians 8:2

"how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity."

2 Corinthians 8:3

"For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,"

2 Corinthians 8:4

"begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints."

2 Corinthians 8:5

"This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God."

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"So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace."

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