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Klei Đru Kơ Phung Đăo

¹Ară anei amâo yuôm ôh kơ kâo čih kơ diih djŏ kơ klei myơr mnơ̆ng đru kơ phung doh jăk. ²Kyuadah kâo thâo leh klei diih hur har čiăng đru. Kyua klei anăn, kâo mơak bi mni kơ diih ti anăp phung ƀuôn sang Masêdôn, êjai lač “phung čar Akai mkra leh mnơ̆ng đru mơ̆ng thŭn dih.” Leh anăn klei diih hur har bi mđĭ ai lu phung diñu. ³Ƀiădah kâo tiŏ nao phung ayŏng adei čiăng kơ klei hmei bi mni kơ diih amâo srăng jing hơăi mang ôh hlăm bruă anei, leh anăn čiăng kơ diih mâo klei mkra êlâo, tui si kâo tuôm lač leh; ⁴huĭdah tơdah đa đa phung Masêdôn hriê mbĭt hŏng kâo leh anăn ƀuh diih ka mkra ôh, hmei srăng hêñ — boh nik nak diih yơh srăng hêñ — kyuadah hmei knang snăk kơ diih. ⁵Snăn, kâo mĭn yuôm mtrŭt phung ayŏng adei nao kơ diih êlâo kơ kâo, leh anăn mkra êlâo mnơ̆ng brei anei diih ƀuăn leh, čiăng dưi mâo leh hŏng klei kmah amâo djŏ hŏng klei mgô̆ ôh.
⁶Brei diih thâo klei anei: hlei pô rah ƀiă srăng wiă ƀiă, leh anăn hlei pô rah lu srăng wiă lu. ⁷Brei grăp čô myơr tui si ñu mĭn leh, amâo djŏ ôh hŏng klei ênguôt amâodah hŏng klei mgô̆, kyuadah Aê Diê khăp kơ pô myơr hŏng klei hơ̆k mơak. ⁸Leh anăn Aê Diê dưi brei kơ diih jih klei pap êbeh dlai, čiăng kơ diih dưi mâo djăp mta mnơ̆ng nanao, leh anăn dưi brei lu êbeh kơ djăp mta bruă jăk. ⁹ Tui si Klei Aê Diê Blŭ čih leh,
“Ñu brei hŏng klei kmah kơ phung ƀun ƀin;
klei kpă ênô ñu dôk nanao hlŏng lar.”
¹⁰ Pô brei mjeh kơ pô rah leh anăn kpŭng kơ gơ̆ ƀơ̆ng srăng brei leh anăn bi lar mjeh diih, leh anăn srăng bi mđĭ lu boh tŭ dưn mơ̆ng klei kpă ênô diih. ¹¹Diih srăng čăt đĭ hlăm djăp mta mnơ̆ng, čiăng dưi ngă klei kmah. Leh anăn klei anăn srăng brei hmei bi mni kơ Aê Diê. ¹²Kyuadah bruă diih ngă anei amâo djŏ knŏng bi djăp klei kƀah phung doh jăk ôh, ƀiădah msĕ mơh srăng bi truh klei bi mni kơ Aê Diê lu êbeh. ¹³Hŏng bruă anei, diñu thâo leh ai tiê kmah diih leh anăn mpŭ mni kơ Aê Diê kyua klei diih gưt asăp hlăm klei tŭ klei mrâo mrang jăk Krist, leh anăn hlăm klei kmah diih myơr kơ diñu leh anăn kơ jih jang phung mkăn; ¹⁴diñu khăp hơiêng leh anăn wah lač kơ diih, kyuadah klei Aê Diê pap êbeh dlai dôk hlăm diih. ¹⁵Bi mni kơ Aê Diê kyua mnơ̆ng Ñu brei arăng amâo dưi mblang ôh.

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¹There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord’s people. ²For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. ³But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. ⁴For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident. ⁵So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.

Generosity Encouraged

⁶Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. ⁹As it is written:
“They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor;
their righteousness endures forever.”⚓
¹⁰Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.
¹²This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. ¹³Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. ¹⁴And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. ¹⁵Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!