Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

2 Corinthians 9 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

toggle collapse
Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

God Gives Most

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:1 -

Now it is unnecessary for me to write to you about the offering [that is to be made] for the saints [in Jerusalem];

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:2 - for I know your eagerness [to promote this cause], and I have [proudly] boasted to the people of Macedonia about it, telling them that [fn]Achaia has been prepared since last year [for this contribution], and your enthusiasm has inspired the majority of them [to respond].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:3 - Still, I am sending the brothers [on to you], 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;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:4 - otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of yourselves—will be humiliated for being so confident.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:5 - That is why I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you [before I come] and make arrangements in advance for this generous, previously promised gift of yours, so that it would be ready, not as something extorted [or wrung out of you], but as a [voluntary and] generous gift.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:6 -

Now [remember] this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [fn]generously [that blessings may come to others] will also reap [fn]generously [and be blessed].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:7 - Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:8 - And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:9 - As it is written and forever remains written,

“HE [the benevolent and generous person] SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE POOR,

HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ENDURES FOREVER!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:10 -

Now He who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed for sowing [that is, your resources] and increase the harvest of your righteousness [which shows itself in active goodness, kindness, and love].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:11 - You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous, and this [generosity, administered] through us is producing thanksgiving to God [from those who benefit].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:12 - For 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:13 - Because of this act of ministry, [fn]they will glorify God for your obedience to the gospel of Christ which you confess, as well as for your generous participation [in this gift] for them and for all [the other believers in need],

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:14 - and they also long for you while they pray on your behalf, because of the surpassing measure of God’s grace [His undeserved favor, mercy, and blessing which is revealed] in you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:15 - Now thanks be to God for His indescribable gift [which is precious beyond words]!
See the AMP Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
AMP Footnotes
Corinth, the capital city of the Roman province of Achaia, was located in the NW part of the Peloponnesus (southern Greece), about 50 miles from Athens. Paul mentions their positive response to this request in Rom 15:26.
Lit in blessings.
Lit in blessings.
I.e. believers in Jerusalem.
AMP

Amplified Bible Copyright (c) 2015 by

The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631 All rights reserved.

For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.