Bible verse for December 22

⁶ So we urged Titus that, just as he had begun it, he should also bring this act of grace to completion among you. ⁷ But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in the love from us that is in you—see that you also excel in this act of grace. ⁸ I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. ¹⁰ And in this matter I give my opinion: this is best for you, since last year you were the first not only to do something but also to want to do it. ¹¹ So now finish doing it, so that your eagerness to want it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. ¹² For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

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