To all bountifulness; that they might do greater good, and thus lead many to bless God.
Through us; as the dispensers of your liberality.
Thanksgiving to God; from those who receive it; and so verse 2 Corinthians 9:12.
Verse 2 Corinthians 9:11. _BEING ENRICHED IN EVERY THING_] Observe, Why does God give riches? That they may be applied to his glory, and the good of men. Why does he _increase_ riches? That those who...
BEING ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING ... - In all respects your riches are conferred on you for this purpose. The design of the apostle is to state to them the true reason why wealth was bestowed. It was not...
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...
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...
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...
THE WILLING GIVER (2 Corinthians 9:1-5)...
BEING ENRICHED. Greek. _piontizo._ See 1 Corinthians 1:5, BOUNTIFULNESS. Greek _haplotes._ Sec 2 Corinthians 1:12. CAUSETH. worketh, Greek. _ketergazomai,_ as 2 Cori
_bountifulness (symplenesse_, Wiclif; _syngleness_, Tyndale). The Greek word here is the same as in ch. 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Corinthians 8:2, where see notes. The word -bountifulness" was first intro...
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...
11. For ΤΩ̣͂ ΘΕΩ̣͂ (אCFGKLP) D has θεῷ and B θεοῦ. The latter might possibly be original; comp. Wis 16:28. 11. ἘΝ ΠΑΝΤῚ ΠΛΟΥΤΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ. If 2 Corinthians 9:9-10 are a parenthesis (Bengel, WH.), the part...
_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...
ΠΛΟΥΤΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΠΛΟΥΤΊΖΩ (G4148) делать богатым, обогащать. Об этом обороте с _part. см._ BD 245f; Martin, ΆΠΛΌΤΗΣ даоя щедрость (_см._ 2 Corinthians 8:2). ΚΑΤΕΡΓΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes....
BEING ENRICHED, &C.— This should be connected with 2 Corinthians 9:8 the 9th and 10th being in a parenthesis....
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...
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....
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. Compare 2 Corinthians 9:8. BOUNTIFULNESS, [ haploteeta (G572)] - 'singleminded liberality' ...
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...
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...
_(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...
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...
BEING ENRICHED IN EVERY THING. — The context points primarily to temporal abundance, but we can scarcely think that the other thought of the spiritual riches that are found in Christ (2 Corinthians 8:...
LIBERAL GIVING IS BLESSED OF GOD....
He now resumes the general subject of 2 Corinthians 9:8, ἐν παντὶ πλουτιζόμενοι here being in apposition with ἐν παντὶ … ἔχοντες there; there is thus no necessity to treat πλουτιζ. as a _nom. pendens....
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...
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...
VERSE 11 Their free gift would multiply their ability to give freely and cause the ones who received to glorify God....
_All bountifulness, [1] by which is signified, a sincere and free liberality, by giving with a sincere heart, and good intention. St. Paul encourages them to contribute willingly for God's sake, and o...
(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...
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...
11._May be enriched unto all bountifulness. _Again he makes use of the term _bountifulness, _to express the nature of true liberality — when, casting all our care upon God, (1 Peter 5:7,) we cheerful...
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...
BEING ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING TO ALL BOUNTIFULNESS,.... These words may be connected with 2 Corinthians 9:8 being included in a parenthesis; and the sense is, that God was not only able to give them a...
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. Ver. 11. _Which causeth through us_] While we not only relieve them, but instruct them, as Bishop Hoo...
_Now he that ministereth seed to the sower_ By making the earth fruitful; _and bread for your food_ (So Bengelius reads,) namely, all things needful for your souls and bodies. _May he supply and multi...
BEING ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING TO ALL BOUNTIFULNESS, WHICH CAUSETH THROUGH US THANKS GIVING TO GOD. The apostle is so full of his subject that his words gush forth in an overwhelming stream of praise fo...
God blesses liberal giving:...
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...
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...
OLBGrk; The word here translated _bountifulness, _ signifies simplicity, in opposition to deceit and fraud. We had it before, 2 CORINTHIANS 8:2; so ROMANS 12:8: so, JAMES 1:5, God is said to give aplw...
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...
2 Corinthians 9:11 enriched G4148 (G5746) in G1722 everything G3956 for G1519 all G3956 liberality G572 which...
And he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, you being enriched in everything unto all libera...
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...
2 Corinthians 9:11. YE BEING ENRICHED IN EVERY THING UNTO ALL LIBERALITY (see on this word, 2 Corinthians 8:2), WHICH WORKETH THROUGH US (when we shall present it to the poor brethren at Jerusalem) TH...
ENRICHED (πλουτιζομενο). Present passive participle of πλουτιζω for which see on 1 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 6:10 only other N.T. examples.LIBERALITY (απλοτητα). See on 2 Corinthians...
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...
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...
HE WILL ALWAYS. The giver is blessed by God so that he can help others! Compare 2 Corinthians 9:8. But God's blessing cannot be used for selfish reasons!...
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...
_To all bountifulness._ Or simplicity, or liberality. This simplicity or liberality of yours brings it to pass that I and all my companions, nay, all Christians amongst whom I speak of it, give thanks...
_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...
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'
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....
1 Chronicles 29:12; 1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Chronicles 31:10;...
Liberality [α π λ ο τ η τ α]. Better singleness or simplicity of heart. See on Romans 12:8....
Which worketh by us thanksgiving to God — Both from us who distribute, and them who receive, your bounty....