2 Corinthians 9 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^9:1 For as concerning the service to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you⁺:
^9:2 for I know your⁺ readiness, of which I glory on your⁺ behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past; and your⁺ zeal has stirred up very many of them.
^9:3 But I have sent the brothers, that our glorying on your⁺ behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, you⁺ may be prepared:
^9:4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you⁺ unprepared, we--not to mention you⁺--should be put to shame in this confidence.
^9:5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers, that they would go before to you⁺, and make up beforehand your⁺ aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
^9:6 But this [I say], He who sows sparingly will reap also sparingly; and he who sows bountifully will reap also bountifully.
^9:7 [Let] each [do] according to as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
^9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you⁺; that you⁺, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work:
^9:9 as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor; His righteousness stays forever.
^9:10 And he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, will supply and multiply your⁺ seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your⁺ righteousness:
^9:11 you⁺ being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
^9:12 For the providing of this service of the ministry not only fills up the measure of the wants of the saints, but abounds also through many thanksgivings to God;
^9:13 seeing that through the proving [of you⁺] by this service they glorify God for the obedience of your⁺ confession to the good news of Christ, and for the liberality of [your⁺] contribution to them and to all;
^9:14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your⁺ behalf, long after you⁺ by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you⁺.
^9:15 Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

2 Corinthians, Chapter 9