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1	Generous Giving My friends, we want you to know that the churches in Macedonia have shown others God's gift of undeserved grace.	Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
2	Although they were going through hard times and were very poor, they were glad to give generously.	How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3	They gave as much as they could afford and even more, simply because they wanted to.	For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
4	They even asked and begged us to let them have the joy of giving their money for God's people.	Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5	And they did more than we had hoped. They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, just as God wanted them to do.	And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
6	Titus was the one who got you started doing this good thing, so we begged him to help you finish what you had begun.	Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
7	You do everything better than anyone else. You have stronger faith. You speak better and know more. You are eager to give, and you love us better. Now you must give more generously than anyone else.	Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
8	I am not ordering you to do this. I am simply testing how real your love is by comparing it with the concern that others have shown.	I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
9	You know our Lord Jesus Christ treated us with undeserved grace by giving up all his riches, so you could become rich.	For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
10	A year ago you were the first ones to give, and you gave because you wanted to. So listen to my advice.	And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11	I think you should finish what you started. If you give according to what you have, you will prove you are as eager to give as you were to think about giving.	Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12	It doesn't matter how much you have. What matters is how much you are willing to give from what you have.	For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13	I am not trying to make life easier for others by making life harder for you. But it is only fair	For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
14	for you to share with them when you have so much, and they have so little. Later, when they have more than enough, and you are in need, they can share with you. Then everyone will have a fair share,	But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
15	just as the Scriptures say, “Those who gathered too much had nothing left. Those who gathered only a little had all they needed.”	As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
16	Titus and His Friends I am grateful that God made Titus care as much about you as we do.	But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
17	When we begged Titus to visit you, he said he would. He wanted to because he cared so much for you.	For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
18	With Titus we are also sending one of the Lord's followers who is well known in every church for spreading the good news.	And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
19	The churches chose this follower to travel with us while we carry this gift that will bring praise to the Lord and show how much we hope to help.	And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
20	We don't want anyone to find fault with the way we handle your generous gift.	Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
21	But we want to do what pleases the Lord and what people think is right.	Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
22	We are also sending someone else with Titus and the other follower. We approve of this man. In fact, he has already shown us many times that he wants to help. And now he wants to help even more than ever, because he trusts you so much.	And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
23	Titus is my partner, who works with me to serve you. The other two followers are sent by the churches, and they bring honor to Christ.	Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
24	Treat them in such a way that the churches will see your love and will know why we bragged about you.	Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.