Catholic Public Domain Version
"For they were begging us, with great exhortation, for the grace and the communication of the ministry that is with the saints. "
— 2 Corinthians 8:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.”
“beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints: ”
“begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.”
“begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.”
“With much entreaty begging of us the grace and communication of the ministry that is done toward the saints.”
“Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:”
“Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.”
And so we are making known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given in the churches of Macedonia.
For within a great experience of tribulation, they have had an abundance of joy, and their profound poverty has only increased the richness of their simplicity.
And I bear witness to them, that they were willing to accept what was in accord with their ability, and even what was beyond their ability.
For they were begging us, with great exhortation, for the grace and the communication of the ministry that is with the saints.
And this is beyond what we had hoped, since they gave themselves, first of all to the Lord, and then also to us, through the will of God,
so much so that we petitioned Titus, that in the same manner as he had begun, he would also complete in you this same grace.
But, just as in all things you abound in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all solicitude, and even more so in your charity toward us, so also may you abound in this grace.