2 Corinthians 9

1 For indeed it is superfluous for me to write to you about the service for the sanctified.

And concerning the ministration by the saints, it would be superfluous for me to write to you:

2 For I know your willingness, which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from a year ago. And your zeal provoked the majority.

for I know the goodness of your mind; and therefore I gloried of you before the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many.

3 But I sent the brothers so that our boast about you would not be empty in this regard. So that, as I said, ye may be prepared,

Yet I sent the brethren, lest the glorying with which we have gloried in you in regard to this matter, should prove vain; and that ye, as I said, may be ready;

4 if somehow Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we might not say, ye) would be embarrassed in this confidence of boast.

so that, if the Macedonians should come with me, and should find you unprepared, we-not to say, ye-should be put to shame for that glorying in which we gloried.

5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go ahead to you, and arrange in advance your gift that was earlier announced, for this to be ready this way as a gift and not as an exaction.

Therefore I was careful to request these my brethren, to go before me unto you, that they might make up this benefaction, of which ye were advised long before to have it ready, as being a benefaction, and not a matter of cupidity.

6 But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings.

And this I say: He that soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall also reap bountifully.

7 Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Every man, according to his own views, not with sadness, not by constraint: for the Lord loveth a joyous giver.

8 And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,

For it is in the power of God, to make all good abound to you, so that ye may have, at all times, and in every thing, what is sufficient for you; and may abound in every good work.

9 as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age. (aiōn g165)

As it is written, He hath dispersed and given to the poor; and his righteousness is established for ever. (aiōn g165)

10 And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness,

Now he that giveth seed to the sower, and bread for food, may he give and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

11 being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us.

so that in every thing, ye may be enriched unto all liberality, to the completion of our thanksgiving to God.

12 Because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the sanctified, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God

For the performance of this ministration, not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is also rich in many thanksgivings to God.

13 through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,

For on account of the test of this ministration, we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, ye communicate with them and with all men:

14 and by their supplication about you, yearning for you because of the transcending grace of God in you.

and they put up prayer for you, with much love, because of the abundance of the grace of God that is upon you.

15 And thanks to God for his indescribable gift.

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.