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Read Full Chapter (2 Corinthians 8) 2 Corinthians 8:2-3 KJV
"How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;"
2 Corinthians 8:2-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
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How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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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.
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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.