Hi, and welcome to
His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and
today we are going to be reading
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some of the things that Paul
was writing to the Corinthians.
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about why he, himself,
was a servant of Christ,
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and how he tried to make
that service to their benefit.
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I think sometimes when I
sit down to read the bible,
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when we come together, I talk
about how that the Word of God
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can be hope and
life and comfort to us,
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and I know that, that is
always true, but the end result
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is not just to draw us closer
to God for our own edification
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but so that we can be a
blessing to others and so today,
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as we read these words
from Paul, perhaps God will use
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them to show us how each of us
wherever we are can go out and
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serve better and serve more
selflessly as Paul is writing
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here. Let's pray together.
Dear God, Thank you so much
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for these words and thank you
for sending us the Holy Spirit
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to help us to understand
them, both to be thankful
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for the example that Paul
set for us all those years ago
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but also give us a, as we listen
today, ears that can hear these
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words as an instruction to us.
And open our minds to ways that
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we could put them into practice
and be used by You to build up
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Your family that is living
today in our neighborhood,
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in our home and in our churches.
We love you so much Jesus,
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and thank you. Amen.
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I am reading from the
King James version and this is
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2nd Corinthians, chapter
5, starting with verse eleven.
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Knowing therefore the terror
of the Lord, we persuade men;
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but we are made manifest unto
God and I trust also are made
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manifest in your consciences.
For we commend not ourselves
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again unto you, but give you
occasion to glory on our behalf,
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that ye may have somewhat
to answer them which glory
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in appearance and not in
heart. For whether we be beside
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ourselves, it is to
God: or whether we be sober,
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it is for your cause. For the
love of Christ constraineth us;
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because we thus judge,
that if one died for all,
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then were all dead:
And that he died for all,
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that they which live, should not
henceforth live unto themselves,
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but unto Him which died
for them and rose again.
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Wherefore, henceforth
know we no man after the flesh.
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Yea, thought we had known
Christ after the flesh, yet now
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henceforth know we him no
more. Therefore if any man be in
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Christ, he is a new creature.
Old things are passed away
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and behold all things are become
new. And all things are of God,
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who has reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ, and hath given
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to us the ministry of
reconciliation; to wit that God
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was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself,
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not imputing their trespasses
unto them; and hath committed
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unto us the word
of reconciliation.
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Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did
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beseech you by us: we
pray you in Christ's stead,
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be ye reconciled to God. For he
hath made him to be sin for us,
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who knew no sin;
that we might be made
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the righteousness of God in him.
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I am reading from II Corinthians
beginning now with Chapter six.
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We then as workers together
with him, beseech you also
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that you receive not
the grace of God in vain.
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For he saith, I have heard thee
in a time accepted, and in the
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day of salvation
have I succored thee:
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behold now is the accepted
time; behold now is the day of
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salvation. Giving no offence
in any thing, that the ministry
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be not blamed: But in all things
approving ourselves as the
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ministers of God, in
much patience, in afflictions,
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in necessities, in distresses,
in stripes, in imprisonments,
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in tumults, in labours,
in watchings, in fastings,
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by pureness, by knowledge,
by longsuffering, by kindness,
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by the Holy Ghost, by love
unfeigned, by the word of truth,
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by the power of God, by
the armour of righteousness
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on the right hand and on the
left, by honour and dishonour,
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by evil report and good report:
as deceivers, and yet true;
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as unknown and yet well known;
as dying, and behold, we live;
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as chastened, and not killed; as
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing;
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as poor, yet making many
rich; as having nothing, and yet
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possessing all things. O ye
Corinthians, our mouth is open
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unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Ye are not straitened in us,
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But ye are
straitened in your own bowels.
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Now for a recompense in the same
I speak as unto my children,
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be ye also enlarged. Be ye not
unequally yoked together with
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unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness
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with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light
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with darkness? And what
concord hath Christ with Belial?
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or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
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And what agreement hath
the temple of God with idols?
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for ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath said,
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I will dwell in them, and walk
in them; and I will be their God
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and they shall be my people,
Wherefore come out from among
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them and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not
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the unclean thing;
and I will receive you,
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and will be a Father unto
you and ye shall be my sons and
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daughters, saith
the Lord Almighty.
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2nd Corinthians chapter seven.
Having therefore these promises,
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dearly beloved, let us cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness
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of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness
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in the fear of God. Receive
us; we have wronged no man,
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we have corrupted no
man, we have defrauded no man.
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I speak not this to condemn
you for I have said before,
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and ye are in our hearts
to die and live with you.
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Great is my boldness of speech
toward you, great is my glorying
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of you. I am filled with
comfort, I am exceeding joyful
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in all our tribulation. For when
we were come into Macedonia,
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our flesh had no rest but
we were troubled on every side;
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without were
fightings, within were fears,
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Nevertheless God, that
comforteth those that are cast
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down, comforted us
by the coming of Titus;
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and not by his coming only,
but by the consolation wherewith
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he was comforted in you, when
he told us your earnest desire,
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your mourning, your
fervent mind toward me;
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so that I rejoiced the more. For
though I made you sorry with a
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letter, I do not
repent, though I did repent:
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for I perceive that the same
epistle hath made you sorry,
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though it were but for a
season. And now I rejoice,
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not that ye were made
sorry, but that ye sorrowed
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to repentance: for ye were
made sorry after a godly manner,
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that ye might receive
damage by us in nothing,
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for godly sorrow
worketh repentance to salvation
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not to be repented of:
but the sorrow of the world
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worketh death. For behold this
selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed
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after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you,
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yea, what clearing of yourselves
yea, what indignation,
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yea, what fear, yea, what
vehement desire, yea, what zeal,
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yea, what revenge! In all things
ye have approved yourselves
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to be clear in this matter.
Wherefore, though I wrote
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unto you, I did it not for his
cause that had done the wrong,
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nor for his cause that suffered
wrong, but that our care for you
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in the sight of God
might appear unto you.
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Therefore we were
comforted in your comfort:
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yea, and exceedingly the more
joyed we for the joy of Titus,
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because his spirit
was refreshed by you all.
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For if I had boasted in anything
to him of you, I am not ashamed.
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but as we spake all
things to you in truth, even so
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our boasting, which I made
before Titus, is found a truth.
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And his inward affection
is more abundant toward you,
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whilst he remembereth
the obedience of you all,
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how with fear and
trembling ye received him.
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I rejoice therefore that I have
confidence in you in all things.
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We are reading
from II Corinthians,
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and the King James version.
and beginning now with chapter 8
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Moreover brethren, we do you to
wit of the grace of God bestowed
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on the churches of Macedonia;
how that in a great trial of
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affliction the abundance of
their joy and their deep poverty
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abounded unto the
riches of their liberality.
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For to their power, I bear
record, yea, and beyond their
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power, they were
willing of themselves;
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praying us with much entreaty
that we would receive the gift
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and take upon us the fellowship
of the ministering to the saints
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and this they did, not as
we hoped, but first gave their
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own selves to the Lord,
and unto us by the will of God.
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Insomuch that we desired
Titus, that as he had begun,
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so he would also finish
in you the same grace also.
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Therefore as ye abound in every
thing, in faith, and utterance,
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and knowledge, and in all
diligence, and in your love
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to us, see that you
abound in grace also.
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I speak not by commandment, but
by occasion of the forwardness
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of others and to prove
the sincerity of your love.
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For ye know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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that though he was rich, yet
for your sakes he became poor,
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that ye through his
poverty might be rich.
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And herein I give my advice
for this is expedient for you,
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who have begun before, not only
to do, but also to be forward a
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year ago. Now therefore,
perform the doing of it;
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that as there was a readiness
to will, so there may be
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a performance also
out of that which ye have.
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For if there be first a willing
mind, it is accepted according
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to that a man hath, and not
according to that he hath not.
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For I mean not that other
men be eased, and ye burdened:
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but by an equality, that now at
this time your abundance may be
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a supply for their want, that
their abundance also may be a
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supply for your want:
that there may be equality:
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As it is written, He that
had gathered much had nothing
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over and he that had
gathered little had no lack.
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But thanks be to God,
which put the same earnest care
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into the heart of Titus
for you. For indeed he accepted
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the exhortation; but being more
forward, of his own accord, he
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went unto you. And we
have sent with him the brother,
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whose praise is in the gospel
throughout all the churches;
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and not that only, but who was
also chosen of the churches to
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travel with us with this grace,
which is administered by us
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to the glory of the same Lord,
and declaration of your ready
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mind: Avoiding this, that
no man should blame us in this
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abundance which is
administered by us:
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Providing for honest things, not
only in the sight of the Lord,
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but also in the sight of
men. And we have sent with them
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our brother, whom we have
often times proved diligent
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in many things, bit now much
more diligent upon the great
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confidence which I have in you.
Whether any do inquire of Titus,
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he is my partner and
fellow helper concerning you:
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or our brethren be inquired of,
they are the messengers of the
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churches and the glory of
Christ wherefore shew ye to them
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and before the churches,
the proof of your love,
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and of our
boasting on your behalf.
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Continuing to read Paul's 2nd
letter to the church in Corinth
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and beginning with chapter 9.
For as touching the ministering
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to the saints, it is superfluous
for me to write to you:
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For I know the forwardness of
your mind, for which I boast of
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you to them of Macedonia, that
Achaia was ready a year ago;
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and your zeal has
provoked very many.
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Yet have I sent the brethren
lest our boasting of you should
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be in vain in this behalf;
that as I said, ye may be ready:
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Lest haply if they of Macedonia
come with me, and find you
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unprepared, we, that we say not,
ye, should be ashamed in this
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same confident boasting,
therefore I thought it necessary
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to exhort the brethren that they
would go before unto you and
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make up beforehand your bounty,
whereof ye had notice before,
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that the same might be ready
as a matter of bounty and not
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as of covetousness. But this
I say, He which soweth sparingly
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shall reap also sparingly;
and he which soweth bountifully
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shall reap also bountifully,
every man according as he
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purposeth in his heart, so
let him give; not grudgingly,
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or of necessity; for
God loveth a cheerful giver.
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And God is able to make
all grace abound toward you;
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that you, always having
all sufficiency in all things,
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may abound to every
good work: (as it is written,
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He hath dispersed abroad,
he hath given to the poor:
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his righteousness
remaineth for ever.
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Now he that ministereth seed
to the sower both minister bread
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for your food, and multiply
your seed sown, and increase
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the fruits of
your righteousness)
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Being enriched in every
thing to all bountifulness,
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which causes through
us thanksgiving to God.
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May God's blessings
come through each of us
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to bless those
around us. Goodbye.
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