1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

1 Nam de ministerio, quod fit in sanctos ex abundanti est mihi scribere vobis.

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 Scio enim promptum animum vestrum: pro quo de vobis glorior apud Macedones. Quoniam et Achaia parata est ab anno præterito, et vestra æmulatio provocavit plurimos.

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:

3 Misi autem fratres: ut ne quod gloriamur de vobis, evacuetur in hac parte, ut (quemadmodum dixi) parati sitis:

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

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.

4 ne cum venerint Macedones mecum, et invenerint vos imparatos, erubescamus nos (ut non dicamus vos) in hac substantia.

5 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

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not as of covetousness.

5 Necessarium ergo existimavi rogare fratres, ut præveniant ad vos, et præparent repromissam benedictionem hanc paratam esse sic, quasi benedictionem, non tamquam avaritiam.

6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

6 ¶ Hoc autem dico: qui parce seminat, parce et metet: et qui seminat in benedictionibus, de benedictionibus et metet.

7 Every man according as he purposeth

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in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

7 Unusquisque, prout destinavit in corde suo, non ex tristitia, aut ex necessitate: hilarem enim datorem diligit Deus.

8 And God is

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able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

8 Potens est autem Deus omnem gratiam abundare facere in vobis: ut in omnibus semper omnem sufficientiam habentes, abundetis in omne opus bonum,

9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

9 sicut scriptum est: Dispersit, dedit pauperibus: justitia ejus manet in sæculum sæculi.

10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food

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, and multiply your seed sown, and increase

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the fruits of your righteousness;)

10 Qui autem administrat semen seminanti: et panem ad manducandum præstabit, et multiplicabit semen vestrum, et augebit incrementa frugum justitiæ vestræ:

11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to

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God.

11 ut in omnibus locupletati abundetis in omnem simplicitatem, quæ operatur per nos gratiarum actionem Deo.

12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God

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;

12 Quoniam ministerium hujus officii non solum supplet ea quæ desunt sanctis, sed etiam abundat per multas gratiarum actiones in Domino,

13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

13 per probationem ministerii hujus, glorificantes Deum in obedientia confessionis vestræ, in Evangelium Christi, et simplicitate communicationis in illos, et in omnes,

14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

14 et in ipsorum obsecratione pro vobis, desiderantium vos propter eminentem gratiam Dei in vobis.

15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

15 Gratias Deo super inenarrabili dono ejus.