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2 Corinthians 9 · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your giving is the blessing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really don't need to write to you about this help for God's people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know that you want to help.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been bragging about you to the people in Macedonia.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told them that you people and Achaea have been ready to give since last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: And your desire to give has made most of the people here ready to give also.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I am sending these brothers to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want our bragging about you in this to be for nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you to be ready just as I said you would be.
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  SPEAKER_00: If any of those from Macedonia come with me and they find that you are not ready, we will be ashamed.
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  SPEAKER_00: We will be ashamed that we were so sure of you and you will be ashamed too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought that I should ask these brothers to come there before we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will help in getting together the generous gift you promised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it will be ready when we come, and it will be seen as the blessing you are giving, not as something you were forced to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember this the one who plants a few seeds will have a small harvest, but the one who plants a lot will have a big harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each one of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should not give if it makes you unhappy or if you feel forced to give.
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  SPEAKER_00: God loves those who are happy to give, and God can give you more blessings than you need, and you will always have plenty of everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will have enough to give to every good work.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the scriptures say, He gives generously to the poor, his goodness will continue forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm one twelve nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is the one who gives seed to those who plant, and he gives bread for food, and God will give your spiritual seed and make that seed grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will produce a great harvest from your goodness.
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  SPEAKER_00: God will make you rich in every way so that you can always give freely, and your giving through us will make people give thanks to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This service you are offering helps God's people with their needs, but that is not all it does.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is also bringing more and more thanks to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This service is a proof of your faith and people will praise God because of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will praise God that you freely share what you have with them and with all people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will praise Him to see you following the good news about Christ that you openly accepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will praise God because you freely share with them and with all people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they pray, they will wish they could be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will feel this way because of the great grace that God gave you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful to describe.