2 Corinthians 9
1 With reference, indeed, to the Fund for your fellow-Christians, it is quite superfluous for me to say anything to you.
关于为圣徒提供帮助之事，我本不想提及。
2 I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.
我知道你们热切地希望提供帮助。我曾向马其顿人称赞你们，说：“亚该亚人去年已经预备好了。”他们中很多人都受到你们热心的激励。
3 So my reason for sending our Brothers is to prevent what we said about you from proving, in this particular matter, an empty boast, and to enable you to be as well prepared as I have been saying that you are.
我派了那几位兄弟造访，就是为了证明你们的确值得我的称赞，让你们可以按照我所说的准备妥当。
4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians were to come with me, and find you unprepared, we — to say nothing of you — should feel ashamed of our present confidence.
这是为了防止如果马其顿人和我一同去你们那里，你们却没有准备好。如果这项任务失败了，我们会感到非常难堪，更不用说你们了！
5 Therefore I think it necessary to urge the Brothers to go to you in advance, and to complete the arrangements for the gift, which you have already promised, so that it may be ready, as a gift, before I come, and not look as if it were being given under pressure.
所以我才决定让几位兄弟提前造访你们，让你们提前筹足之前所答应的捐款。这样你们的帮助就是真正的馈赠，而非勉强而为之。
6 Remember the saying — ‘Scanty sowing, scanty harvest; plentiful sowing, plentiful harvest.’
我还想提醒你们这一点：种得少就收获少，种得多就收获的多。
7 Let every one give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves ‘a cheerful giver.’
每个人都要按照自己已经决定的方式捐赠，不要为难，不必勉强，因为诚心捐赠之人才会获得上帝的爱。
8 God has power to shower all kinds of blessings upon you, so that, having, under all circumstances and on all occasions, all that you can need, you may be able to shower all kinds of benefits upon others.
上帝恩典你们一切，让你们始终富足，所以也就有足够的能力帮助别人。
9 (As Scripture says — ‘He scattered broadcast, he gave to the poor; His righteousness continues for ever.’ (aiōn g165)
正如经文所说：“他慷慨救济穷人，他的慷慨之情永不消逝。” (aiōn g165)
10 And he who supplies ‘seed to the sower, and bread for eating,’ will supply you with seed, and cause it to increase, and will multiply ‘the fruits of your righteousness’).
上帝为撒种者提供种子，为人类提供食物。他必将为你们加倍提供种子，让你们的慷慨之情收获更多。
11 Rich in all things yourselves, you will be able to show liberality to all, which, with our help, will cause thanksgiving to be offered to God.
你们将万事富足，这样就可以始终慷慨给予，你们的慷慨将让其他人感谢上帝。
12 For the rendering of a public service such as this, not only relieves the needs of your fellow-Christians, but also results in the offering to God of many a thanksgiving.
当你用这种方式提供服务，不仅满足了上帝使徒的需求，也让许多人感谢上帝。
13 Through the evidence afforded by the service thus rendered, you cause men to praise God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the Good News of the Christ, as well as for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others.
你们的慷慨彰显了你们的真实天性，这份慷慨惠及的众人，将因你们的顺从感谢上帝。因为这体现了你们对基督福音的承诺，彰显出你们为他们和其他人的慷慨之心。
14 And they also, in their prayers for you, express their longing to see you, because of the surpassing love of God displayed toward you.
他们会用无尽的爱为你们祈祷，因为上帝通过你们传递他的厚恩。
15 All thanks to God for his inestimable gift!
感谢上帝的恩赐，这远非言语所能形容。
