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Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

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that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.

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For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing,

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imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

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And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.