2 Corinthians 9:1-4
PAUL'S FINAL INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE COLLECTION. The example set by the readiness of the Corinthians:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S FINAL INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE COLLECTION. The example set by the readiness of the Corinthians:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS TOUCHING THE MINISTERING OF THE SAINTS, IT IS SUPERFLUOUS FOR ME TO WRITE TO YOU.... [ 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.... [ 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,... [ 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. Paul's kind diplomacy and pastoral tact is evident in every line of this admonition. In an almost apologetic manner he writes: For so far as the ministr... [ 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The gifts of Christians should be measured by the greatness of their love toward God:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THIS I SAY, HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY SHALL REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HE PURPOSES IN HIS HE ART, SO LET HIM GIVE; NOT GRUDGINGLY OR OF NECESSITY; FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. The apostle here states the exact business of the deputies whom he was sending: Therefore, namely, to obviate the danger spoken of in v. 4, he had believed it necessary... [ 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
God blesses liberal giving:... [ Continue Reading ]
(AS IT IS WRITTEN, HE HATH DISPERSED ABROAD; HE HATH GIVEN TO THE POOR; HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS REMAINETH FOREVER.... [ 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,)... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING ENRICHED IN EVERYTHING TO ALL BOUNTIFULNESS, WHICH CAUSETH THROUGH US THANKS GIVING TO GOD. The apostle is so full of his subject that his words gush forth in an overwhelming stream of praise for the manifold manifestations of God's grace in and through the Corinthians: God has power to make a... [ 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
Liberal giving brings the blessings of the recipients:... [ 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,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BY THEIR PRAYER FOR YOU, WHICH LONG AFTER YOU FOR THE EXCEEDING GRACE OF GOD IN YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT! Paul here adds a final motive for their cheerful contribution, namely, that of the material and moral benefits which the brethren at Jerusalem would derive there from. The word which the apostle uses for service is that which is otherwise used for the for... [ Continue Reading ]