RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes,
and exceedingly with even more simcha because of the
simcha of Teitus, because his ruach was refreshed by all
of you.
14 For if I boasted anything to him about you, I am not
ashamed; but as we spoke all things to you in emet, even
so our boasting, which I made before Teitus, was truthful.
15 And his deep ahava is more abundant toward you,
while he remembers your obedience, how with respect
and awe you received him.
16 I gilah therefore that I have confidence in you in all
things.
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Moreover, Yisraelite brothers, we want you to know
the unmerited favor of vuvh bestowed on the Yisraelite
congregations of Makedonia;
2 How that even in great trial of affliction, the plenty of
their simcha despite their deep poverty overflowed into
their rich liberality.
3 For to their credit and power, yes I bear witness, that
even beyond their ability they were willing to give of
themselves;
4 Begging us with much urgency that we would receive
the gift, so they could take part in the service of this
mitzvah to the Yisraelite kidushim.
5 And this they did, not only as we expected, but first
they gave themselves to vuvh, and then to us by the will of
vuvh.
6 So that we desired Teitus, that as he had begun, so he
would also finish with you the same unmerited favor as
well.
7 Therefore, as you excel in all things, in emunah, and
clean speech, and in Torah da’at, and in all diligence, and
in your ahava for us, see that you excel in the unmerited
favor of giving also.
8 I speak not by Torah commandment, but about the
sincerity of others, to prove the sincerity of your ahava.
9 For you know the unmerited favor of our Master gauvh
ha Moshiach, that, though He was rich, yet for your sake
He became poor, that through His poverty you might be
made spiritually rich.
10 And with this background I give my advice: for this is
for your advantage, who have begun before in your own
desire about a year ago, to now do.
11 Now therefore perform the actual mitzvah; that as
there was a readiness to perform the mitzvah, so there
may be a performance of it also from that which you
have.
12 For if there is a willing mind, then every man can give
according to what a man has, and not according to what
he has not, and then his gift is acceptable.
13 This advice is not intended to relieve other men, for
you to be burdened:
14 But that there may be equality, that now at this time
your plenty may be a supply for their needs, so that their
plenty also may be a supply for your needs: that there
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15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had
nothing extra; and he that had gathered little had no
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16 But hodu be to vuvh, who put the same care for you
into the lev of Teitus.
17 For indeed he accepted our appeal; but being more
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eager to receive it, on his own accord he went to see you.
18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose tehilla
is in the Besorah throughout all the Yisraelite
congregations;
19 And not only that, but he was also chosen by the
Yisraelite congregations to travel with us with this
financial relief, which is administered by us to the tifereth
of the same Master, and to also encourage you to do
likewise:
20 We are therefore careful in the collection and
distribution, that no man should blame us in this plenty
that is administered by us:
21 For we are careful to do the honest things, not only in
the sight of vuvh, but also in the sight of men.
22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we
have often proved diligent in many things, but now much
more diligent, because of the great trust which he has in
you.
23 If anyone asks about Teitus, he is my partner and
fellow helper concerning you: or if anyone asks about our
Yisraelite brothers, they are the shlichim of the Yisraelite
congregations, and the very tifereth of Moshiach.
24 Therefore show them, and all the Yisraelite
congregations, the proof of your ahava, and of our
boasting on your behalf, by the performance of your
intentions.
For as touching the service to the Yisraelite kidushim,
it is not necessary for me to write to you:
2 For I know the eagerness of your mind, for which I
boast of you to them of Makedonia, that Achayah was
ready to give a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very
many.
3 Yet have I sent the Yisraelite brothers to you, lest our
boasting of you should be worthless in this matter; that, as
I said, you should be ready:
4 Perhaps if some from Makedonia come with me, and
find you unprepared (we speak, not you) you would then
be ashamed about our confident boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to ask the Yisraelite
brothers, that they would go before me to you, and make
up beforehand your gift, about which you gave notice
before, that the gift might be ready, as a bracha for you,
and not as an act of extortion.
6 But this I say, He who sows sparingly shall also reap
sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposed in his lev, so let
him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for tvkt loves
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8 And tvkt is able to make all unmerited favor abound
towards you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all
things, may abound to every tov mitzvah:
9 As it is written, He has dispersed liberally; He has given
to the poor: His tzedakah remains le-olam-va-ed.
10 Now He that gives zera to the sower including lechem
for food, shall supply and multiply your zera sown, and
increase the fruits of your tzedakah;
11 Being enriched in every way in all liberality, which
causes us to give and perfect our hodu to tvkt.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplies
the needs of the Yisraelite kidushim, but it causes an
overflowing of hodu by many Yisraelites to tvkt;