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| 2nd-Corinthians 9:1 | For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: | For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:2 | 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. | For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians. That Achaia also is ready from the year past, and your emulation hath provoked very many. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:3 | 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: | Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of concerning you, be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may be ready: |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:4 | 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. | Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:5 | 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. | Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before, and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:6 | But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. | Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly, shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings, shall also reap blessings. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:7 | Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. | Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:8 | 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: | And God is able to make all grace abound in you; that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work, |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:9 | (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. | As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:10 | 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;) | And he that ministereth seed to the sower, will both give you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice: |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:11 | Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. | That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all simplicity, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:12 | For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; | Because the administration of this office doth not only supply the want of the saints, but aboundeth also by many thanksgivings in the Lord, |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:13 | 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; | By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the simplicity of your communicating unto them, and unto all. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:14 | And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. | And in their praying for you, being desirous of you, because of the excellent grace of God in you. |
| 2nd-Corinthians 9:15 | Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. | Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift. |
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