Bible, King James Version
2_Corinthians
2Cor.9
[1] For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you:
[2] For 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.
[3] Yet 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:
[4] Lest 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.
[5] Therefore 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.
[6] But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap
also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.
[7] Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so
let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a
cheerful giver.
[8] And 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:
[9] (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath
given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
[10] Now 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;)
[11] Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness,
which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
[12] For the administration of this service not only
supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God;
[13] Whiles 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;
[14] And by their prayer for you, which long after you for
the exceeding grace of God in you.
[15] Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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