⁵So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for this bountiful gift that you have promised, so that it may be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an extortion.

⁶The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.^* ⁷Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.^* ⁸And God is able to provide you with every blessingⁿ in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.^* ⁹As it is written,

“He scatters abroad; he gives to the poor;

his righteousness^o endures forever.”^*

¹⁰He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.^p ¹¹You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us, ¹²for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. ¹³Through the testing of this ministry you^q glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your partnership with them and with all others,^*

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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

nGk gift or grace
oOr benevolence
pOr benevolence
qOr they

Cross references

*Gal 6:7, 9
*Ex 25:2; Deut 15:7, 10; Rom 12:8; 2 Cor 8:12
*Eph 3:20; Phil 4:19
*Ps 112:9
*Mt 9:8; Rom 15:31; 2 Cor 2:12; 8:4