2 Corinthians 9

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible · 1899 · New Testament · 13 chapters

Reading 2 Corinthians chapter 9 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.

Verses 1–10

1 For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you.

2 For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your emulation hath provoked very many.

3 Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of concerning you be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may be ready:

4 Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.

5 Therefore I thought it necessary to desire the brethren that they would go to you before and prepare this blessing before promised, to be ready, so as a blessing, not as covetousness.

6 Now this I say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings.

7 Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,

9 As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever.

10 And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

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