2 Corinthians 9:1-11 ▼

1 For indeed, concerning the ministry to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you⁺.

2 For I know your⁺ readiness, which I boast of to Macedonians on behalf of you⁺, that Achaia has been prepared from a year ago, and your⁺ zeal provoked the greater part.

3 But I sent the brothers so that our boasting that is on behalf of you⁺ in this matter should not be made void, so that you⁺ may be prepared, as I have been saying—

4 lest perhaps if Macedonians should come with me and should find you⁺ unprepared, we would be put to shame—not that we might say you⁺—in this confidence.

5 Therefore I deemed it necessary to exhort the brothers that they should go before to you⁺ and should complete beforehand your⁺ foreannounced blessing, thus for this to be ready as a blessing and not as covetousness.

6 Now this: The one sowing sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one sowing upon blessings will also reap upon blessings,

7 each as he has purposed in the heart, not out of grief or out of necessity. For God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you⁺, so that in every way, always, having all sufficiency, you⁺ may abound to every good work.

9 As it has been written: “He scattered abroad; He gave to the poor; His righteousness remains to the age.”

10 Now the One supplying seed to the one sowing and bread for food will supply and will multiply your⁺ seed and will increase the fruits of your⁺ righteousness,

11 being enriched in every way to all generosity, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.