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Bulig para sa mga Tumuluo

Indi na kinahanglan nga sulatan ko pa kamo parte sa inyo pagbulig sa mga katawhan sang Dios didto sa Judea, tungod kay nahibaluan ko nga gusto gid man ninyo nga magbulig. Ginapabugal ko gani kamo sa mga taga-Macedonia. Nagasiling ako sa ila nga kamo dira sa Acaya handa na nga magbulig halin pa sang nagligad nga tuig. Sang pagkabati nila sadto, natandog gid ang tagipusuon sang kalabanan sa ila sa paghatag. Gani ginapauna ko dira sila ni Tito para mabuligan kamo sa pagpreparar sang inyo amot agod indi magguwa nga wala sing pulos ang akon pagpabugal parte sa inyo nga kamo handa na. Kay basi kon may mga taga-Macedonia nga mag-upod sa akon kon magkadto na ako dira kag masapwan nila nga wala pa man gali kamo makahanda sang inyo inughatag. Kon amo ini ang matabo mahuy-an kami, kay ginpabugal namon kamo tungod kay dako ang amon pagsalig sa inyo. Kag labi nga mahuy-an kamo. Gani naghunahuna ako nga dapat pangabayon ini nga mga utod nga mag-una dira agod sa wala pa ako mag-abot, matipon na nila ang inyo amot nga ginpromisa. Kag sa sini nga paagi magaguwa nga naghatag kamo tungod nga gusto ninyo kag indi nga napilitan lang kamo.

Dumduma ninyo ini: ang halimbawa sang aton paghatag pareho sang pagpanggas. Kon diutay ang aton binhi nga ginapanggas, diutay man ang aton pagaanihon. Pero kon madamo ang aton binhi, madamo man ang aton ani. Ang kada isa dapat maghatag suno sa iya gusto nga ihatag. Indi nga may pagpugong ukon nga napilitan lang, kay ginahigugma sang Dios ang mga nagahatag nga malipayon. Kag ang Dios sarang makahatag sa inyo sang sobra pa sang sa inyo mga kinahanglanon, agod indi gid kamo pagkulangon kag permi pa kamo makabulig sa iban. Pareho sang ginasiling sang Kasulatan:

“Nagapanagtag siya sa mga imol;
ang iya matarong nga ginahimo dumdumon hasta san-o.”[a]

10 Kag ang Dios nga nagahatag sang binhi sa mangunguma agod may pagakaunon siya, amo man ang Dios nga magahatag sa inyo sang inyo mga kinahanglanon. Kag sa sini magadugang pa gid ang inyo pagbulig sa iban. 11 Pabuganaon niya kamo sa tanan nga butang agod makabulig kamo permi sa iban. Kag madamo ang magapasalamat sa Dios tungod sang inyo ginapadala sa ila nga bulig paagi sa amon. 12 Kay sa sining inyo paghatag, indi lang nga mabuligan ninyo ang mga kinahanglanon sang mga katawhan sang Dios sa Judea, kundi paagi man sini madamo ang magapasalamat sa Dios. 13 Kay ang inyo bulig nagapamatuod nga nagatuman kamo sa Maayong Balita parte kay Cristo nga inyo ginatuohan. Gani dayawon nila ang Dios; kag indi lang tungod kay nagbulig kamo sa ila kundi tungod kay nakabulig kamo sa tanan. 14 Magapangamuyo sila para sa inyo nga may dako nga paghigugma tungod sa indi matupungan nga pagpakamaayo sang Dios sa inyo. 15 Gani magpasalamat kita sa Dios tungod sa iya dulot sa aton nga indi masaysay.

Footnotes

  1. 9:9 Salmo 112:9.

There is no need(A) for me to write to you about this service(B) to the Lord’s people.(C) For I know your eagerness to help,(D) and I have been boasting(E) about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year(F) you in Achaia(G) were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. But I am sending the brothers(H) in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.(I) For if any Macedonians(J) come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident. So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers(K) to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift,(L) not as one grudgingly given.(M)

Generosity Encouraged

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.(N) Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,(O) not reluctantly or under compulsion,(P) for God loves a cheerful giver.(Q) And God is able(R) to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need,(S) you will abound in every good work. As it is written:

“They have freely scattered their gifts(T) to the poor;
    their righteousness endures forever.”[a](U)

10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food(V) will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.(W) 11 You will be enriched(X) in every way so that you can be generous(Y) on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.(Z)

12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs(AA) of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.(AB) 13 Because of the service(AC) by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God(AD) for the obedience that accompanies your confession(AE) of the gospel of Christ,(AF) and for your generosity(AG) in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God(AH) for his indescribable gift!(AI)

Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:9 Psalm 112:9

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.

15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.