Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,(A) not reluctantly or under compulsion,(B) for God loves a cheerful giver.(C)

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Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

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So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, (A)not grudgingly or of [a]necessity; for (B)God loves a cheerful giver.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:7 compulsion

14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced(A) but would be voluntary.

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14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

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14 But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, (A)that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.

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