Remember this: if you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly, and if you sow generously, you will reap generously as well. | The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. |
Each person should give as much as he has decided in his heart, not with reluctance or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. | Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. |
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And God is able to enrich you with an abundance of every grace, so that, with all of your needs provided for, you may be able to produce a surplus of good works. | And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. |
The one who provides seed for sowing and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness. | He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. |
Enriched in every way, you will be able to practice all your acts of generosity, which, through our intervention, will result in thanksgiving to God. | You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. |