2 Corinthians 9 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

God Gives Most

1Now it is unnecessary for me to write to you about the offering for the saints;

2for I know your eagerness, and I have boasted to the people of Macedonia about it, telling them that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your enthusiasm has inspired the majority of them.

3Still, I am sending the brothers, so that our pride in you may not be an empty boast in this case, and so that you may be prepared, just as I told them you would be;

4otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of yourselves—will be humiliated for being so confident.

5That is why I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you and make arrangements in advance for this generous, previously promised gift of yours, so that it would be ready, not as something extorted, but as a generous gift.

6Now this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will also reap generously.

7Let each one give just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

8And God is able to make all grace come in abundance to you, so that you may always have complete sufficiency in everything, and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.

9As it is written and forever remains written,

“He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor,

His righteousness endures forever!”

10Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

11You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this through us is producing thanksgiving to God.

12For the ministry of this service (offering) is not only supplying the needs of the saints (God’s people), but is also overflowing through many expressions of thanksgiving to God.

13Because of this act of ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to the gospel of Christ which you confess, as well as for your generous participation for them and for all,

14and they also long for you while they pray on your behalf, because of the surpassing measure of God’s grace in you.

15Now thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!