10And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.
10And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.
7 But just as you excel in everything--in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us --see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
10 And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.
11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.
12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
8:10And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
8:10And herein I give my advice; for this is profitable for you, who have begun not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.
8:10And herein I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
8:10And I give my opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.
8:10And herein I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
8:10And in this I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
8:10I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
8:10and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you is expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before — a year ago,
8:10And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.