{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:16:43.556Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"2 Corinthians","bookSlug":"2-corinthians","chapter":9,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":15},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"For concerning the ministration which is for the saints, it is superfluous my writing to you."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and the zeal reported of you has stimulated the mass of the brethren."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, that we say not ye, may be put to shame in this confidence."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But this is true, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in the spirit of blessing shall reap also in blessing:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"according as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Because the ministration of this service is not only filling up the measure of what is lacking to the saints, but also abounding by many thanksgivings to God;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God which is upon you."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thanks be to God for his unspeakable free gift."}],"citation":{"inline":"2 Corinthians 9 (DBT)","markdown":"[2 Corinthians 9](https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/2-corinthians/9 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}