2 Corinthians 9

1 For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.

Concerning now for the service for the saints excessive for me it is to write to you;

2 For I knowe your readinesse of minde, whereof I boast my selfe of you vnto them of Macedonia, and say, that Achaia was prepared a yeere agoe, and your zeale hath prouoked many.

I know for the readiness of you which concerning you I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia has prepared itself from a year ago, and (*N(k)O*) (from *k*) your zeal has been provoking the greater number.

3 Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie:

I have sent however the brothers, that not the boasting of us which [is] about you may be made void in matter this, that even as I was saying having prepared yourselves you may be,

4 Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.

lest perhaps maybe shall come with me myself Macedonians and shall find you unprepared, shall be put to shame we ourselves — that not (I may say *N(k)O*) you yourselves — in confidence this (of boasting. *K*)

5 Wherefore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren to come before vnto you, and to finish your beneuolence appointed afore, that it might be readie, and come as of beneuolence, and not as of niggardlinesse.

Necessary therefore I esteemed [it] to exhort the brothers that they may go before (into *NK(o)*) you and may complete beforehand the (having pre-promised *N(K)O*) blessing of you this ready to be thus as a blessing and not (as *N(k)O*) covetousness.

6 This yet remember, that he which soweth sparingly, shall reape also sparingly, and hee that soweth liberally, shall reape also liberally.

This now: The [one] sowing sparingly sparingly also will reap, and the [one] sowing upon blessings upon blessings also will reap.

7 As euery man wisheth in his heart, so let him giue, not grudgingly, or of necessitie: for God loueth a cheerefull giuer.

each even as (he himself has purposed *N(k)O*) in the heart, not out of regret or of necessity; a cheerful for giver loves God.

8 And God is able to make all grace to abound towarde you, that yee alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all thinges, may abounde in euery good worke,

(is able *N(k)O*) now God all grace to make abound to you, so that in every [way] always all sufficiency having you may abound in every work good

9 (As it is written, He hath sparsed abroad and hath giuen to the poore: his beneuolence remayneth for euer. (aiōn g165)

Even as it has been written: He has scattered abroad, He has given to the poor, the righteousness of Him abides to the age. (aiōn g165)

10 Also hee that findeth seede to the sower, will minister likewise bread for foode, and multiplie your seede, and increase the fruites of your beneuolence, )

The [One] now supplying (seed *N(k)O*) to him sowing and bread for food (will supply *N(k)O*) and (will multiply *N(k)O*) the seed for sowing of you and (will increase *N(k)O*) the (fruits *N(k)O*) of the righteousness of you.

11 That on all partes yee may bee made rich vnto all liberalitie, which causeth through vs thankesgiuing vnto God.

in every [way] enriching you to all generosity, which produces through us thanksgiving to God,

12 For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God,

For the ministry of the service this not only is completely filling up the needs of the saints but also is overflowing through many thanksgivings to God;

13 (Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men)

through the proof of the service this [they] glorifying God at the submission of the of confession of you to the gospel of Christ and to [the] generosity of the participation toward them and toward all,

14 And in their praier for you, to log after you greatly, for the aboundant grace of God in you.

and by their supplication for you a longing for you on account of the surpassing grace of God upon you.

15 Thankes therefore bee vnto God for his vnspeakeable gift.

Thanks [be] (now *k*) to God for the indescribable of Him gift!