⁵Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers that they should go on ahead to you and make arrangements in advance for your generous gift that was promised previously, so this would be prepared as a generous gift and not as grudgingly granted.

⁶Now the point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly^b or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸And God is able to cause all grace to abound to you, so that in everything at all times, because you^* have enough of everything, you may overflow in every good work. ⁹Just as it is written,

“He scattered widely, he gave to the poor;

his righteousness remains forever^c.”^d

¹⁰Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow, ¹¹being made rich in every way for all generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God, ¹²because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but also is overflowing through many expressions of thanksgiving to God. ¹³Through the proven character of this service they will glorify God because of the submission of your confession to the gospel of Christ and the generosity of your participation toward them and toward everyone,

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2 Corinthians 9:6–7: The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Footnotes

bLiterally “out of sorrow”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have”) which is understood as causal
cLiterally “for the age”
dA quotation from Ps 112:9