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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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Administering the Gift

¹Now concerning ⚓the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you; ²for I know your willingness, about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a ⚓year ago; and your zeal has stirred up the majority. ³⚓Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready; ⁴lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this confident boasting. ⁵Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation.

The Cheerful Giver

⁶⚓But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, ⚓not grudgingly or of necessity; for ⚓God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸⚓And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. ⁹As it is written:
⚓“He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever.”
¹⁰Now may He who ⚓supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your ⚓righteousness, ¹¹while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, ⚓which causes thanksgiving through us to God. ¹²For the administration of this service not only ⚓supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³while, through the proof of this ministry, they ⚓glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal ⚓sharing with them and all men, ¹⁴and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding ⚓grace of God in you. ¹⁵Thanks be to God ⚓for His indescribable gift!