American Standard Version of 1901
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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised {Greek: blessing.}bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of {Or, covetousness}extortion.
Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,