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2 Corinthians 8:11

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8:11to finish what you started,16 so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly,17 you can also complete it18 according to your means.19

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  1. 16 Grk “and now also complete the doing.”
  2. 17 Grk “just as the eagerness to want [it].”
  3. 18 Grk “so also it might be completed.” The passive construction was converted to an active one in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.
  4. 19 Grk “completed from what you have.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish 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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.

CSBChristian 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.

NLTNew 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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So now also complete the doing of it, in order that just as you have the eagerness to want to do it, thus also you may complete it from what you have.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.