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it is not according to what one does not have.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="spcl">For it is not that others would have relief and you would have distress,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But that your abundance might come together at this time with their lack of these things, so that their abundance also of those things would be for your lack, that there would be equality.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="spcl">As it is written: "He who increased took no surplus and he who took little was not deprived."</span><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But thank God who gave this concern for you to the heart of Titus.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="spcl">For he accepted our request and because he was greatly concerned, by his desire he went out among you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But we sent our brother with him, whose praise in The Gospel is in all the churches.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="spcl">In this way also he was truly chosen from the churches to go out with us in this grace of ministry from us for the glory of God and for our own encouragement.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But we fear in this lest anyone impute to us a flaw in this abundance that is ministered by us.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="spcl">For we are concerned for what is right, not only before God, but also before men.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="spcl">But we sent our brother with them, who had been proved by us, that he is diligent always in many things, but now he is all the more diligent by the trust of many concerning you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="spcl">If therefore Titus is my partner and helper among you, and if our other brethren are Apostles of the churches of the glory of The Messiah,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="spcl">From now on show the demonstration of your love and our pride in you among them in the presence of all the churches.</span><p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//www.lulu.com/shop/rev-david-bauscher/the-original-aramaic-new-testament-in-plain-english-with-psalms-proverbs-8th-edition-with-notes/hardcover/product-21273790.html">The Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English- with Psalms & Proverbs<br>Copyright © 2007; 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