May 19 – Walking in Favor

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
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Today, May 19th, walking in
favor.

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Has anyone ever just seemed to
be against you for no clear

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reason?
Maybe there’s someone at school

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who has an attitude toward you
that you didn’t earn.

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Maybe there’s tension at home
that you can’t seem to resolve.

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Maybe you’ve tried to be kind,
to do the right thing, to stay

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out of drama, and it still feels
like it’s not working.

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That kind of experience can be
exhausting, and it can make you

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wonder whether being a good
person even matters.

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Proverbs chapter 16, verse 7
speaks right into that.

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When a man’s ways please the
Lord, he makes even his enemies

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to be at peace with him.
That is a remarkable promise.

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Not that if you live well,
everyone will love you.

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That’s not the guarantee.
But that when your life is

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genuinely aligned with God, he
can do something supernaturally

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that you could never engineer on
your own.

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He can soften people.
He can shift dynamics.

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He can bring peace into
situations that seemed

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impossible.
Your job isn’t to manage every

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relationship perfectly.
Your job is to please God, and

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He handles what you can’t.
Psalm 56, verse 8 then shows us

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just how closely God is
watching.

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You have kept count of my
tossings.

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Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?

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God counts your sleepless
nights.

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He collects your tears.
He notices the quiet moments

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when you’re struggling and no
one else sees.

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There’s something incredibly
tender about this image, The God

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of the universe keeping record
of your pain, not because he’s

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tallying up your suffering, but
because every moment of your

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life is precious to him.
You are not invisible to God,

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not even in your hardest, most
private moments.

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And then Second Corinthians
Chapter 9, verse 8 brings in an

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overflow that changes how you
approach everything.

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For God is able to make all
grace abound to you, so that

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having all sufficiency in all
things at all times, you may

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abound in every good work, all
grace, all sufficiency at all

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times.
This isn’t a stingy God

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parceling out just enough for
you to get by.

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This is a God who gives
abundantly so that you can in

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turn give abundantly to the
people around you who need what

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He’s placed in you.
Think about the connection

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between those 3 passages.
When you walk in God’s ways, He

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smooths out conflicts you
couldn’t resolve yourself.

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When you’re hurting, He sees
every detail and draws close.

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And when you need strength and
resources to bless others, He

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supplies more than enough.
That’s what it looks like to

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walk in God’s favor.
Not a life free from difficulty,

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but a life where God is actively
present, actively providing, and

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actively working on your behalf.
This isn’t about performing or

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being perfect.
It’s about staying close to Him,

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choosing His way in the small
decisions, trusting Him with the

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big ones, and then watching Him
do what only He can do.

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Your peace, your courage, your
ability to show up for people

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around you.
It flows from His favor, not

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from your own strength or
strategy.

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And that means it’s available to
you every single day.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank You for

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seeing every part of my life,
the visible and the hidden, the

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victories and the tears.
Help me to live in a way that

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truly pleases You and to trust
You to handle the relationships

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and situations that feel beyond
my control.

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I receive Your grace today, not
just for myself, but so I can

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pour it out to the people around
me.

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Teach me to walk in Your favor,
to trust Your provision, and to

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reflect Your peace wherever I
go.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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darkness loses every right to
stay?

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Proverbs Chapter 16 Verse 7
World English Bible When a man’s

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ways please Yahweh, he makes
even his enemies to be at peace

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with him.
Psalm Chapter 56 World English

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Bible Be merciful to me God for
man wants to swallow me up all

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day long.
He attacks and oppresses me.

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My enemies want to swallow me up
all day long, for they are many

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who fight proudly against me.
When I am afraid, I will put my

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trust in you, in God I praise
His word.

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In God I put my trust, I will
not be afraid.

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What can flesh do to me?
All day long they twist my

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words.
All their thoughts are against

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me for evil they conspire and
lurk.

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Watching my steps, they are
eager to take my life.

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Shall they escape by iniquity,
in anger, cast down the people’s

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God?
You count my wanderings.

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You put my tears into your
container.

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Aren’t they in your book?
Then my enemies shall turn back

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in the day that I call.
I know this, that God is for me.

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In God I will praise His word.
In Yahweh I will praise His

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word.
I have put my trust in God.

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I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

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Your vows are on me.
God, I will give thank offerings

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to you, for you have delivered
my soul from death, and

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prevented my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God in

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the light of the living.
Second Corinthians, chapters 8

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to 9 World English Bible.
Moreover, brothers, we make

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known to you the grace of God
which has been given in the

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assemblies of Macedonia, How in
much proof of affliction the

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abundance of their joy and their
deep poverty abounded to the

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riches of their generosity.
For according to their power I

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testify, yes, and beyond their
power they gave of their own

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accord, begging us with much
entreaty to receive this grace

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and the fellowship in the
service to the Saints.

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This was not as we had expected.
But first they gave their own

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selves to the Lord and to us
through the will of God.

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So we urge Titus that as he had
made a beginning before, so he

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would also complete in you this
grace.

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But as you abound in everything,
in faith, utterance, knowledge,

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all earnestness, and in your
love to us, see that you also

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abound in this grace.
I speak not by way of

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commandment, but is proving
through the earnestness of

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others the sincerity also of
your love.

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For you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that though

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he was rich, yet for your sakes
he became poor, that you through

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his poverty might become rich.
I give a judgement in this for

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this is expedient for you who
were the first to start a year

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ago, not only to do but also to
be willing, but now complete the

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doing also that as there was the
readiness to be willing.

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So there may be the completion
also out of your ability.

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For if the readiness is there,
it is acceptable according to

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what you have, not according to
what you don’t have.

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For this is not that others may
be eased, and you distressed,

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but for equality.
Your abundance at this present

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time supplies their lack, that
their abundance also may become

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a supply for your lack, that
there may be equality.

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As it is written.
He who gathered much had nothing

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leftover, and he who gathered
little had no lack.

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But thanks be to God, who puts
the same earnest care for you

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into the heart of Titus.
For he indeed accepted our

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exhortation, but being himself
very earnest, he went out to you

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of his own accord.
We have sent together with him

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the Brother whose praise and the
good news is known throughout

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all the assemblies.
Not only so, but he was also

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appointed by the assemblies to
travel with us in this grace

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which is served by us to the
glory of the Lord Himself, and

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to show our readiness.
We are avoiding this, that any

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man should blame us concerning
this abundance which is

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administered by us, having
regard for honorable things, not

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only in the sight of the Lord,
but also in the sight of men.

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We have sent with them our
brother, whom we have many times

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proved earnest in many things,
but now much more earnest by

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reason of the great confidence
which he has in you.

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As for Titus, he is my partner
and fellow worker for you.

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As for our brothers, they are
the apostles of the assemblies.

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The glory of Christ therefore
show the proof of your love to

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them before the assemblies, and
of our boasting on your behalf.

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It is indeed unnecessary for me
to write to you concerning the

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service to the Saints, for I
know your readiness, of which I

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boast on your behalf to those of
Macedonia, that Ichaya has been

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prepared for the past year.
Your zeal has stirred up very

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many of them.
But I have sent the brothers

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that are boasting on your
behalf.

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May not be in vain in this
respect, that, just as I said,

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you may be prepared lest by any
means, if anyone from Macedonia

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comes there with me and finds
you unprepared, we, to say

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nothing of you, would be
disappointed in this confident

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boasting.
I thought it necessary,

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therefore, to entreat the
brothers that they would go

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before to you and arrange ahead
of time the generous gift that

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you promised before that the
same might be ready as a matter

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of generosity and not of
greediness.

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Remember this.
He who sows sparingly will also

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reap sparingly.
He who sows bountifully will

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also reap bountifully.
Let each man give according as

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he has determined in his heart,
not grudgingly or under

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compulsion.
For God loves a cheerful giver,

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and God is able to make all
grace abound to you, that you

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always having all sufficiency in
everything, may abound to every

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good work as it is written.
He has scattered abroad, He has

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given to the poor.
His righteousness remains

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forever.
Now may he who supplies seed to

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the sower and bread for food
supply and multiply your seed

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for sowing, and increase the
fruits of your righteousness,

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You being enriched in everything
to all generosity, which

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produces Thanksgiving to God
through us.

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For this service of giving that
you perform not only makes up

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for lack among the Saints, but
abounds also through much giving

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of thanks to God, seeing that
through the proof given by this

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service they glorify God For the
obedience of your confession to

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the good news of Christ, and for
the generosity of your

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contribution to them and to all,
while they themselves also with

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supplication on your behalf,
yearn for you by reason of the

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exceeding grace of God in you.
Now thanks be to God for His

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unspeakable gift.
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