For you yourselves know, brethren, that our coming to you was not in vain,
Original word: φειδομένως
Transliteration: pheidomenós
Definition (short): sparingly
Definition (full): sparingly
Word Origin:
adverb from a part. of pheidomai
Definition: sparingly
NASB Translation: sparingly (2).
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Adverb from participle of
pheidomai; abstemiously, i.e. Stingily -- sparingly.
see GREEK pheidomai
KJV:
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
NASB:
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.