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    "chapter": 9
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    "n": 9,
    "bookSlug": "2-corinthians",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-9:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.1",
        "text": "For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-9:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.2",
        "text": "for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-9:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.3",
        "text": "But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-9:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.4",
        "text": "lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-9:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.5",
        "text": "I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-9:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.6",
        "text": "But this [I say,] He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-9:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.7",
        "text": "[Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-9:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.8",
        "text": "And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-9:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.9",
        "text": "as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-9:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.10",
        "text": "And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-9:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.11",
        "text": "ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-9:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.12",
        "text": "For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-9:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.13",
        "text": "seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-9:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.14",
        "text": "while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-9:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.9.15",
        "text": "Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift."
      }
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