2 Corinthians 9

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2 Corinthians 9 Text (WEB)

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting. I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever." Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God; seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all; while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

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2 Corinthians 9 Text (Hebrew)

אמנם אין צרך לכתב אליכם על דבר השרות אשר לעזרת הקדשים׃ כי ידעתי את נדיבתכם אשר עליה אני מתהלל בכם לפני אנשי מקדוניא לאמר אכיא מזמנת היא משנה שעברה ותער הקנאה היוצאת מכם את רוח רבם׃ אבל שלחתי את האחים פן תהיה לריק תהלתנו עליכם בדבר הזה ולמען תהיו מזמנים כאשר אמרתי׃ פן בבוא אתי אנשים ממקדוניא ימצאו אתכם לא מזמנים ונבוש אנחנו ואינני אמר אתם בבטחון הזה אשר התהללנו בו׃ על כן היה נכון בעיני לבקש מן האחים כי יקדמו ללכת אליכם ויכינו את ברכתכם המיועדה מלפנים למען תהיה מוכנת כעין ברכה ולא כעין כילות׃ כי הנה הזרע בצמצום גם יקצר בצמצום והזרע בברכות גם יקצר בברכות׃ וכל איש כאשר ידבנו לבו לא מצער ולא מאנס כי הנתן בלב שמח יאהבנו אלהים׃ ואלהים יכל להשפיע עליכם כל חסד עד כי יהיה לכם בכל עת די ספוקכם בכל ותותירו בכל מעשה טוב׃ ככתוב פזר נתן לאביונים צדקתו עמדת לעד׃ והנתן זרע לזרע ולחם לאכל יתן וירבה את זרעכם ויפריא תנובות צדקתכם׃ למען תעשירו בכל לכל התמימות הפעלת תודה לאלהים על ידינו׃ כי שרות העבודה הזאת לא לבד ימלא את מחסרי הקדושים כי גם יודו רבים לאלהים בשרותכם הנאמן הזה׃ ויכבדו את האלהים על משמעת הודאתכם לבשורת המשיח ועל תמת התחברותכם אליהם ואל כלם׃ והם בהתחננם בעדכם נכספים לכם בעבור חסד האלהים אשר גבר עליכם׃ ותודה לאלהים על מתנתו העצומה מספר׃

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2 Corinthians 9 Text (Latin)

Nam de ministerio, quod fit in sanctos ex abundanti est mihi scribere vobis. Scio enim promptum animum vestrum : pro quo de vobis glorior apud Macedones. Quoniam et Achaia parata est ab anno præterito, et vestra æmulatio provocavit plurimos. Misi autem fratres : ut ne quod gloriamur de vobis, evacuetur in hac parte, ut (quemadmodum dixi) parati sitis : ne cum venerint Macedones mecum, et invenerint vos imparatos, erubescamus nos (ut non dicamus vos) in hac substantia. Necessarium ergo existimavi rogare fratres, ut præveniant ad vos, et præparent repromissam benedictionem hanc paratam esse sic, quasi benedictionem, non tamquam avaritiam. Hoc autem dico : qui parce seminat, parce et metet : et qui seminat in benedictionibus, de benedictionibus et metet. Unusquisque, prout destinavit in corde suo, non ex tristitia, aut ex necessitate : hilarem enim datorem diligit Deus. Potens est autem Deus omnem gratiam abundare facere in vobis : ut in omnibus semper omnem sufficientiam habentes, abundetis in omne opus bonum, sicut scriptum est : Dispersit, dedit pauperibus : justitia ejus manet in sæculum sæculi. Qui autem administrat semen seminanti : et panem ad manducandum præstabit, et multiplicabit semen vestrum, et augebit incrementa frugum justitiæ vestræ : ut in omnibus locupletati abundetis in omnem simplicitatem, quæ operatur per nos gratiarum actionem Deo. Quoniam ministerium hujus officii non solum supplet ea quæ desunt sanctis, sed etiam abundat per multas gratiarum actiones in Domino, per probationem ministerii hujus, glorificantes Deum in obedientia confessionis vestræ, in Evangelium Christi, et simplicitate communicationis in illos, et in omnes, et in ipsorum obsecratione pro vobis, desiderantium vos propter eminentem gratiam Dei in vobis. Gratias Deo super inenarrabili dono ejus.

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2 Corinthians 9 Text (KJV)

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 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. 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: 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. 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. But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 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: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 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;) Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 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; And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

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