2 Corinthians 9:1
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you :... [ Continue Reading ]
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you :... [ Continue Reading ]
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. [It is needless for me to urge upon you the fact that it is a becoming thing in you to minister to the poor in the churche... [ Continue Reading ]
But I have sent the brethren [Titus and the other two],_ that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:_... [ Continue Reading ]
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. [I have gloried or boasted concerning you in many respects, and have hitherto had to retract nothing which I said. That my glorying concerning your l... [ Continue Reading ]
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand [i. e., before my coming] _your afore-promised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion_. [I sent these messengers on before me that they might... [ Continue Reading ]
But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. [The same law which pertains to the physical world pertains with equal effect in the moral and spiritual realm, so that those who are stingy and niggardly in giving to othe... [ Continue Reading ]
Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly [literally, of sorrow], _or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver_. [Let each man give as his own heart prompts him and not as improperly influenced by others. Let no one give as if half crying to part with his money,... [ Continue Reading ]
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:... [ Continue Reading ]
as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever. [Psalms 112:9. God is able to bestow every blessing, both temporal and spiritual, and so he can give blessings to those who dispense them, and thus enable them to abound in good works which the... [ Continue Reading ]
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 [and he that, in the economy of nature, makes returns to the sower, so that he not only has his seed again, but bread for food, shall in like mann... [ Continue Reading ]
ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. [Thus, your liberality multiplies your means of liberality, and also works, through the agents which dispense it, thanksgiving to God from the poor in Jerusalem who receive it.]... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. [This ministry of yours, in giving to the poor at Jerusalem, not only fills up the measure of the wants of these people of God, but overflows that measure, for it results in m... [ Continue Reading ]
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. [Of course, the Christ himself is God's great gift to man, but the personality of Christ is not in the trend of Paul's argument. The thought that fills his mind is that the Corinthians, by their liberality, are showing themselves truly changed and converted... [ Continue Reading ]