5Necessary, therefore, I thought [it] to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.
2 Corinthians 9 continues Paul's appeal for the collection for the Jerusalem church, shifting from the motivation of the previous chapter to the theology of cheerful giving. Paul urges the Corinthians to follow through on their earlier enthusiasm, not reluctantly but as a deliber
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