otherwise if any (A)Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence. So I thought it necessary to urge the (B)brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised [a](C)bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a [b](D)bountiful gift and not [c](E)affected by covetousness.

Now this I say, (F)he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [d]bountifully will also reap [e]bountifully.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit as covetousness
  4. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings
  5. 2 Corinthians 9:6 Lit with blessings