◄ 2 Corinthians 8:11 ►
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Good News Translation
On with it, then, and finish the job! Be as eager to finish it as you were to plan it, and do it with what you now have.

New Revised Standard Version
now finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means.

Contemporary English Version
I think you should finish what you started. If you give according to what you have, you will prove you are as eager to give as you were to think about giving.

New American Bible
complete it now, so that your eager willingness may be matched by your completion of it out of what you have.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

Context
Christ's Example
…10And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago. 11Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have. 12For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:2
Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring firstfruits to me: of every man that offereth of his own accord, you shall take them.

2 Corinthians 8:3
For according to their power (I bear them witness) and beyond their power, they were willing:

2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

2 Corinthians 8:19
And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will:

2 Corinthians 9:2
For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your emulation hath provoked very many.

2 Corinthians 8:10
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