2 Corinthians 9

¹For concerning the ministry that is done toward the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you.

²For I know your prompt mind: for the which I glory of you to the Macedonians: That Achaia also is ready from the year past, and your emulation hath provoked very many.

³But I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we glory of you, be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may be ready:

⁴lest when the Macedonians shall come with me, and find you unready, we (that we say not, ye) may be ashamed in this substance.

⁵Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would come to you, and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready so, as a blessing, not as avarice.

⁶And this I say, he that soweth sparingly, sparingly also shall reap: and he that soweth in blessings, of blessings also shall reap.

⁷Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not of sadness or of necessity. For God loveth a cheerful giver.

⁸And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that in all things always having all sufficiency, you may abound unto all good works,

⁹as it is written: He distributed, he gave to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever.

¹⁰And he that ministereth seed to the sower, will give bread also for to eat: and will multiply your seed and will augment the increases of the fruits of your justice:

¹¹that being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all simplicity, which worketh by us thanks-giving to God.

¹²Because the ministry of this office doth not only supply those things that the Saints want, but aboundeth also by many thanks-givings in our Lord,

¹³by the proof of this ministry, glorifying God in the obedience of your confession unto the Gospel of Christ, and in the simplicity of communicating unto them, and unto all,

¹⁴and in their praying for you, being desirous of you because of the excellent grace of God in you.

¹⁵Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.