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Verse 2 Corinthians 9:8. _GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND_] We
have already seen, 2 Corinthians 8:1 that the word χαρις, in the
connection in which the apostle uses it in these chapters, signifi...
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AND GOD IS ABLE ... - Do not suppose that by giving liberally you will
be impoverished and reduced to want. You should rather confide in God,
who is able to furnish you abundantly with what is needful...
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2. EXHORTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT.
CHAPTER 9
_ 1. Further Exhortations to Liberality. (2 Corinthians 9:1)_
2. The Blessings Connected with Giving. (2 Corinthians 9:6 .)
Again he exhorts them to libe...
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This concern brings him, however, to a renewed consideration of the
grace or liberality, and of the blessings attached to it. He touches
in succession on the proper temper of such liberality (2 Corint...
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THE WILLING GIVER (2 Corinthians 9:1-5)...
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Further, there is this--He who sows sparingly will also reap
sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully. Let each
man give as he has decided in his heart. Let him not give as if it
h...
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ABLE. Greek _dunatos,_ but the texts read the verb _dunateo,_ which
ooc. elsewhere only in 2 Corinthians 13:3.
ALL. Notice the four "alls" which, with "every", give the Figure of
speech _Polyptotan._...
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_all grace_ See notes on _grace_elsewhere, esp. ch. 2 Corinthians 8:6
and 2 Corinthians 9:15 of this chapter; also cf. 1 Corinthians 16:3.
The meaning here is -God is able to make every gift of His l
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ΔΥΝΑΤΕΙ͂ (אBCDG) rather than δυνατός (C2D2D3KLP).
8. ΔΥΝΑΤΕΙ͂ ΔῈ Ὁ ΘΕΌΣ. Comp. δυνατεῖ γὰρ
ὁ κύριος (Romans 14:4). In both places later authorities
substitute δυνατός, because δυνατεῖ is an unusual wo...
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EXHORTATION TO GIVE LIBERALLY AND CHEERFULLY
Having gloried in the former readiness of the Corinthians, in order to
encourage the Macedonians, and having told the Corinthians of the
spontaneous genero...
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_GOD WILL MULTIPLY THE SEED YOU SOW 2 CORINTHIANS 9:8-12:_ Give as God
has prospered you with a cheerful spirit. When you do give generously
God will bless you with everything you need. You will alway...
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ΔΥΝΑΤΕΪ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΥΝΑΤΈΩ (G1414)
делать способным, давать возможность.
_Praes._ подчеркивает постоянную
способность Бога,
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΎΩ
(G4052) изобиловать, и...
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ALL GRACE— Rather _charitable gifts,_ or _liberality;_ as the word
χαρις signifies in the former chapter, and as the context
determines the sense here....
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Generous Giving
Scripture_
2 Corinthians 9:6-15. But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall
reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully....
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BUTLER'S COMMENTARY
SECTION 5
Confidence (2 Corinthians 9:8-11)
8And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so
that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in...
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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:
ALL GRACE - even in external goods, while ye bestow on oth...
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5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure
motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or
from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
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9:8 gift (e-9) 'Every grace' or 'benefit.'...
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_(C) 9:1-15. EXHORTATIONS TO GENEROUS GIVING_
There is no need to write to you about the purpose and necessity of
the collection, for your zeal in the matter is well known, and has
been used by me as...
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PARAPHRASE. 'And God has power to enrich you with all earthly
blessings, that ye may have sufficient for yourselves and the means of
helping those who need, (9) and so experience the fulfilment of the...
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ALL GRACE] every earthly blessing that will give them opportunity of
blessing others.
THAT YE.. MAY ABOUND] The purpose of God's gifts to them is that they
may share them with others: cp. for the tho...
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GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK
2 CORINTHIANS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 9
V1 I do not really need to write to you about help for other
Christians. V2 I know how eager you are to help. I have to...
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GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU. — The word
“grace” must be taken with somewhat of the same latitude as in 2
Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 8:19, including _every form of bounty,_
as w...
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δυνατεῖ δὲ ὁ Θεὸς κ. τ. λ.: _and God is powerful_
(see reff. 2 Corinthians 13:3) _to make all grace, i.e._, every gift,
temporal as well as spiritual, _abound unto you_ (see reff. 2
Corinthians 4:15 f...
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LIBERAL GIVING IS BLESSED OF GOD....
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ENRICHED UNTO LIBERALITY
2 Corinthians 9:8
We are not really poorer by what we give away; and God will never
starve His own almoners. Note the comprehensiveness of 2 Corinthians
9:8. God's grace is l...
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In concluding this subject of the collection for the saints the
apostle declares that he desires that their giving should be glad and
spontaneous. He excludes two methods of giving, "grudgingly," that...
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VERSE 8 God can favor us with temporal good and will when we
cheerfully give....
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And God [is] able to make (f) all grace abound toward you; that ye,
always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to (g) every
good work:
(f) All the bountiful liberality of God.
(g) To...
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God is generous to the liberally disposed Christian; filling such as
relieve the poor with every species of good, and returning their
charities a hundred-fold. (Menochius)...
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(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 g...
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2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the
Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong
contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
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8._And God is able _Again he provides against the base thought, which
our infidelity constantly suggests to us. “What! will you not rather
have a regard to your own interest? Do you not consider, that...
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In the next Chapter the apostle (being on his way to Judea) exhorts
the Corinthians to prepare relief for the poor of Israel; sending
Titus that all might be ready as of a willing mind a disposition o...
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AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARDS YOU,.... By "all
grace" is meant, not the love and favour of God, the source of all
blessings enjoyed in time and eternity; nor the blessings of grace,...
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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:
Ver. 8. _And God is able_] Fear not therefore lest yourse...
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_And God is able_, &c. The contents of this verse are very remarkable;
each expression is loaded with matter, which increases as the sentence
proceeds; _God is able to make_ And will make, see on Roma...
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ALL GRACE; every good gift....
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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,...
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God blesses liberal giving:...
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Paul does not stress the rightness of their ministering to the saints:
this would be superfluous, for of this they were already persuaded,
and so expressed themselves, so that Paul had boasted to the...
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6-15 Money bestowed in charity, may to the carnal mind seem thrown
away, but when given from proper principles, it is seed sown, from
which a valuable increase may be expected. It should be given
car...
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Having made God, in the verse before, a debtor to those who, by giving
to poor distressed saints, would make him their creditor, he here
proveth him to be no insolvent debtor, but able to do much more...
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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:...
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2 Corinthians 9:8 And G1161 God G2316 able G1415 make G4052 all G3956
grace G5485 abound G4052 (G5658) towa
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‘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.'
For let not those who give generously from a godly heart be in...
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FURTHER REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD REVEAL THEIR GENEROSITY (2 CORINTHIANS
9:1).
It is often noted that this chapter appears to repeat to some extent
the ideas in chapter 8, yet from a different angle, an...
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IS ABLE
(δυνατε). Late verb, not found except here; 2 Corinthians 13:3;
Romans 14:4. So far a Pauline word made from δυνατος, able.ALL
SUFFICIENCY
(πασαν αυταρκειαν). Old word from αυταρκης
(Phili...
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2 Corinthians 9:8
The All-ability of God.
I. God is able to make all grace abound. Then surely He is able to
rule the world He has created and still creates. He is the God of
creation, and not its se...
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CONTENTS: Offering for the Jerusalem saints. Encouragement for givers.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Our return in blessings will be proportionate to what we
sow. Let our works of charit...
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2 Corinthians 9:1. _Touching the ministering to the saints_ in Judea,
_it is superfluous for me to write to you._ What a method of finding
the avenues of the heart. He knew their forwardness he had bo...
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AND GOD. It is a general rule that you should not withhold your
Christian giving just because you think _hard times_ may come. Since
the Christian is a_ proxy_ of God's grace, the supply does not run...
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_Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give;…
for God loveth a cheerful giver._
A CHEERFUL GIVER BELOVED OF GOD
I. What is meant by a cheerful giver? To be this one must--
1....
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2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 GOD LOVES (“approves
of”) A CHEERFUL GIVER (see Deuteronomy 15:10;...
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CHAPTER 9
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He proceeds to stimulate the Corinthians to almsgiving by motives
of human shame and praise; he bids them not to be put to shame before
the liberality of the Mac...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
2 Corinthians 9:1—Connected, in word [περί, in both cases] and
in fact, with 1 Corinthians 15:1, which belongs to the initiation of
this “collection,” this “ministration” for the poor...
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EXPOSITION
Encouragement to the Corinthians to fulfil their promises by giving
speedily (2 Corinthians 9:1), amply (2 Corinthians 9:6), cheerfully (2
Corinthians 9:7), and thereby earn God'
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter nine.
Paul has been, in the last couple of Chapter s, talking to them about
the collection that he wanted them to take for the poor in Jerusalem....
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1 Chronicles 29:12; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Peter 4:10; 2 Chronicles
25:9;...
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Always - all - in everything. Nearly reproducing the play on the word
all in the Greek.
Sufficiency [α υ τ α ρ κ ε ι α ν]. Only here and 1 Timothy
6:6. The kindred adjective aujtarkhv A. V., content,...
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How remarkable are these words! Each is loaded with matter and
increases all the way it goes. All grace — Every kind of blessing.
That ye may abound to every good work — God gives us everything,
that...
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Here the apostle tacitly answers the common objection against liberal
alms-giving; men are afraid they shall want themselves, what they give
away to others. No, says the apostle, God is able to make a...