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January 28, 2018

Consumed To Give

January 28, 2018 • Dr. Stan Welch

2 Corinthians 8:10-15 (NTE)

10 Let me give you my serious advice on this: you began to be keen on this idea, and to start putting it into practice, a whole year ago; it will now be greatly to your advantage

11 to complete your performance of it. If you do so, your finishing the job as far as you are able will be on the same scale as your eagerness in wanting to do it.

12 If the eagerness is there, you see, the deed is acceptable, according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

13 The point is not, after all, that others should get off lightly and you be made to suffer, but rather that there should be equality.

14 At the present time your abundance can contribute to their lack, so that their abundance can contribute to your lack. That’s what makes for equality,

15 just as the Bible says: ‘The one who had much had nothing to spare, and the one who had little didn’t go short.’