For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: FOR - connected with . 'Show love to the messengers of the churches; for, as concerns the ministration for the saints, it is superfluous to write to you, who are so forward already. WRITE - emphatic. All t... [ Continue Reading ]
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. READY A YEAR AGO - to send off the money, owing to the apostle's exhortation (1 Corinthians 16:1). YOUR ZEAL. So 'Aleph (') B C. But... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: HAVE I SENT. We should say, 'I send;' the ancients put it in the past, as it would be by the time that the letter arrived. THE BRETHREN (; ) - Titus and the two others.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. IF THEY OF MACEDONIA - Greek, 'if Macedonians.' UNPREPARED - with your collection: see 2 Corinthians 9:2, "ready" [ pareskeuastai (G3903)], 'prepare... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE. Translate, 'that they should,... [ Continue Reading ]
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. I SAY - supply the ellipsis, 'But this (is to be borne in mind)' [touto de isteon]. BOUNTIFULLY - literally, 'with,' or 'in blessings' [ ep' (G1909) eulogiais (G212... [ Continue Reading ]
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSETH IN HIS HEART - the consent of the free choice [proairesis] must accompany the gift. Opposed to "of necessity;" as "grudgingly" is to "a c... [ Continue Reading ]
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: ALL GRACE - even in external goods, while ye bestow on others. THAT - `in order that.' God's gifts are bestowed on us, not that we may have them to ourselve... [ Continue Reading ]
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. (AS IT IS WRITTEN - realizing the highly blessed character, Psalms 112:5; Psalms 112:9. HE - the "good man." DISPERSED - as seed sown with full and open hand, without anxious thought... [ Continue Reading ]
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) Translate as Isaiah 55:10, 'He that supplieth [ epichoreegoon (G2023)] seed to the sower and bread for food'-literally, 'bread for eating' [ br... [ Continue Reading ]
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. Compare 2 Corinthians 9:8. BOUNTIFULNESS, [ haploteeta (G572)] - 'singleminded liberality' (2 Corinthians 8:2, note); 'simplicity' (Romans 12:8). CAUSETH THROUGH US - literally, 'worketh through... [ Continue Reading ]
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; Greek, 'the ministration [ diakonia (G1248): the application to the recipients] of this public service [ leitourgias (G3009), on your part] is not only still furt... [ Continue Reading ]
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; BY - through. EXPERIMENT. Translate, 'the experience.' Or, 'the experimental proof [ tees (G3588) dokimees (G13... [ Continue Reading ]
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. Translate, 'Themselves also with prayer for you, longing after you on account of the exceeding grace of God (resting) upon you.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT - the gift of His own Son, which includes all other gifts (; ). If we have received "His unspeakable gift," what great thing is it, if we give a few perishing gifts for His sake? It is this Gift which (the apostle already sees) en... [ Continue Reading ]