New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 8:11-19

11But now finish 1doing it also, so that just as there was the 2readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability. 12For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable 3according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. 13For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality-- 14at this present time your abundance being a supply for 4their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for 5your need, that there may be equality; 15as it is written, “6He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

16But 7thanks be to God who 8puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of 9Titus. 17For he not only accepted our 10appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord. 18We have sent along with him 11the brother whose fame in the things of the 12gospel has spread through 13all the churches; 19 14and not only this, but he has also been 15appointed by the churches to travel with us in 16this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our 17readiness,

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 8:11 Lit the doing ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 8:11 2 Cor 8:12, 19; 9:2 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 8:12 Mark 12:43f; Luke 21:3, 4; 2 Cor 9:7 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 8:14 Acts 4:34; 2 Cor 9:12 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 8:14 Acts 4:34; 2 Cor 9:12 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 8:15 Ex 16:18 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 8:16 2 Cor 2:14 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 8:16 Rev 17:17 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 8:16 2 Cor 2:13; 8:6, 23 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 8:17 2 Cor 8:6; 12:18 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 8:18 1 Cor 16:3; 2 Cor 12:18 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 8:18 2 Cor 2:12 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 8:18 1 Cor 4:17; 7:17 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 8:19 Rom 5:3 ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 8:19 Acts 14:23; 1 Cor 16:3f ↩
16. 2 Corinthians 8:19 2 Cor 8:4, 6 ↩
17. 2 Corinthians 8:19 2 Cor 8:11, 12; 9:2 ↩

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