And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
These verses were the types of verses that seem to speak directly to you even though you know they were being spoken to the church in that time and b/c of a specific situation. i know that things need to be taken and read in context, but sometimes the words just seem like the words of encouragement or advice that i need to hear. anyways, that's what these verses were to me. kind of an encouragement and reminder to finish things that i have started and not to worry that i don't have or am not in the same place i was when i started.
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