2 Corinthians 9
About 2 Corinthians 2 Corinthians is Paul's personal letter about ministry, weakness, comfort in suffering and generosity.
1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:Selected2 Corinthians 9:1Ask
2For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.Selected2 Corinthians 9:2Ask
3Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:Selected2 Corinthians 9:3Ask
4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.Selected2 Corinthians 9:4Ask
5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.Selected2 Corinthians 9:5Ask
6But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.Selected2 Corinthians 9:6Ask
7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.Selected2 Corinthians 9:7Ask
8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:Selected2 Corinthians 9:8Ask
9(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.Selected2 Corinthians 9:9Ask
10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)Selected2 Corinthians 9:10Ask
11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.Selected2 Corinthians 9:11Ask
12For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;Selected2 Corinthians 9:12Ask
13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;Selected2 Corinthians 9:13Ask
14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.Selected2 Corinthians 9:14Ask
15Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.Selected2 Corinthians 9:15Ask
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