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Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Passage Lookup: 2 Corinthians 8:1-8

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2 Corinthians 8:1
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Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been (a)given in the churches of (b)Macedonia,
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2 Corinthians 8:2
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that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the (c)wealth of their liberality.
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2 Corinthians 8:3
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For I testify that (d)according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,
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2 Corinthians 8:4
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begging us with much urging for the (e)favor [a]of participation in the [b](f)support of the [c]saints,
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2 Corinthians 8:5
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and this, not as we had [d]expected, but they first (g)gave themselves to the Lord and to us by (h)the will of God.
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2 Corinthians 8:6
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So we (i)urged (j)Titus that as he had previously (k)made a beginning, so he would also complete in you (l)this gracious work as well.
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2 Corinthians 8:7
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But just as you (m)abound (n)in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the [e]love we inspired in you, see that you (o)abound in this gracious work also.
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2 Corinthians 8:8
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I (p)am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
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