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2 Corinthians 9 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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God Loves a Cheerful Giver

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:1 -

For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the [fn]saints;

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:2 - for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal stirred up most of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:3 - But I have sent the brothers, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:4 - lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:5 - So I regarded it necessary to encourage the brothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised blessing, so that the same would be ready as a blessing and not as a [fn]begrudging obligation.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:6 -

Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows with blessing will also reap with blessing.

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:7 - Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:8 - And God is able to make every grace abound to you, so that in everything at every time having every sufficiency, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:9 - as it is written,

“HE SCATTERED ABROAD, HE GAVE TO THE NEEDY,

HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS [fn]STANDS FOREVER.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:10 -

Now He who supplies SEED TO THE SOWER AND BREAD FOR FOOD will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:11 - you will be enriched in everything for all generosity, which through us is bringing about thanksgiving to God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:12 - For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying the needs of the [fn]saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:13 - Because of the proven character given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the [fn]generosity of your [fn]fellowship toward them and toward all,
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:14 - while they also, by prayer on your behalf, long for you because of the surpassing grace of God on you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:15 - [fn]Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
LSB Footnotes
Or holy ones
Lit covetousness
Lit abides
Or holy ones
Or simplicity; without false motives
Or sharing, cf. Rom 15:26
Lit Grace; with gratitude
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