2 Corinthians 9
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 [I say], He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he
that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 [ Let] each man [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 [of you] by this ministration they glorify
God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the
liberality of [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.