2Corinthians - Chapter 9 | American Standard Version

  • 1. For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
  • 2. for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.
  • 3. But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:
  • 4. lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.
  • 5. I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
  • 6. But this {cf15i I say,} He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
  • 7. {cf15i Let} each man {cf15i do} according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
  • 8. And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
  • 9. as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.
  • 10. And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
  • 11. ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.
  • 12. For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;
  • 13. seeing that through the proving {cf15i of you} by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of {cf15i your} contribution unto them and unto all;
  • 14. while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • 15. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
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