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New International Version
Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.New Living Translation
Now you should finish what you started. Let the eagerness you showed in the beginning be matched now by your giving. Give in proportion to what you have.English Standard Version
So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.Berean Standard Bible
Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.Berean Literal Bible
And now also complete the doing, so that just as there was the readiness to will, so also there may be to complete, out of that which you have.King James Bible
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.New King James Version
but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.New American Standard Bible
But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the willingness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.NASB 1995
But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.NASB 1977
But now finish doing it also; that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.Legacy Standard Bible
But now complete doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it from what you have.Amplified Bible
So now finish this, so that your eagerness in desiring it may be equaled by your completion of it, according to your ability.Christian Standard Bible
Now also finish the task, so that just as there was an eager desire, there may also be a completion, according to what you have.Holman Christian Standard Bible
But now finish the task as well, that just as there was eagerness to desire it, so there may also be a completion from what you have. American Standard Version
But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Finish now by works that thing which you desire, for as you had eagerness to desire, so you should complete by works from what you have.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. 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. English Revised Version
But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.GOD'S WORD® Translation
So finish what you began to do. Then your willingness will be matched by what you accomplishGood 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. International Standard Version
Now finish what you began, so that your eagerness to do so may be matched by your eagerness to complete it. Literal Standard Version
and now also finish doing [it], that even as [there is] the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which you have,Majority Standard Bible
Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.New American Bible
complete it now, so that your eager willingness may be matched by your completion of it out of what you have.NET Bible
to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.New Revised Standard Version
now finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means.New Heart English Bible
But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore finish the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.Weymouth New Testament
And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be the accomplishment in proportion to your means.World English Bible
But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability. Young's Literal Translation
and now also finish doing it, that even as there is the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,Additional Translations ...
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Context
Christ's Example
…10And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire. 11Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means. 12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.…
Cross References
Exodus 25:2
"Tell the Israelites to bring Me an offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose heart compels him.2 Corinthians 8:3
For I testify that they gave according to their ability and even beyond it. Of their own accord,2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.2 Corinthians 8:19
More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering--the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.2 Corinthians 9:2
For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
Treasury of Scripture
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2 Corinthians 8
1. He stirs them to a generous gift for the poor saints at Jerusalem, by the example of the Macedonians;
7. by commendation of their former forwardness;
9. by the example of Christ;
14. and by the spiritual profit that shall redound to themselves thereby;
16. commending to them the integrity and willingness of Titus, and those other brothers.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(11) Now therefore perform the doing.--Better, complete the doing: to "perform the doing" being open, in the modern use of the word, to the charge of tautology. All the English versions, however, have "perform." The three stages are distinctly marked out in St. Paul's mind:--(1) Willing the purpose to give; in this they had shown readiness. (2) Setting about the work of giving; this Titus had reported, (3) Completing the work; this he now urged upon them, so that it might answer to the beginning.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 11. - Now therefore perform the doing of it, etc.; "but now complete also the actual work, in order that, as was the readiness of the willing, so may be also the completion according to your means." Out of that which ye have. This, and not "out of your ability," is probably the right reading, as we see from the next verse. Parallel Commentaries ...
Greek
Now
νυνὶ (nyni)
Adverb
Strong's 3570: A prolonged form of nun for emphasis; just now.
finish
ἐπιτελέσατε (epitelesate)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2005: To complete, accomplish, perfect. From epi and teleo; to fulfill further, i.e. Execute; by implication, to terminate, undergo.
the work,
ποιῆσαι (poiēsai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.
so that
ὅπως (hopōs)
Conjunction
Strong's 3704: From hos and pos; what(-ever) how, i.e. In the manner that (as adverb or conjunction of coincidence, intentional or actual).
you may complete it
ἐπιτελέσαι (epitelesai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 2005: To complete, accomplish, perfect. From epi and teleo; to fulfill further, i.e. Execute; by implication, to terminate, undergo.
just as
καθάπερ (kathaper)
Adverb
Strong's 2509: Even as, just as. From katha and per; exactly as.
eagerly
προθυμία (prothymia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4288: Inclination, readiness, eagerness, willingness, promptness. From prothumos; predisposition, i.e. Alacrity.
as you began,
θέλειν (thelein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 2309: To will, wish, desire, be willing, intend, design.
according to
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.
[your]
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
means.
ἔχειν (echein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.
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