Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

2 Corinthians 9:6

2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 Corinthians 9:6 sows bountifully. Paul expands a well-known proverb, “You reap what you sow” (e.g., Job 4:8; Galatians 6:7). God provides opportunities to give generously. Those who sow generously will also reap bountifully in terms of bearing fruit for God’s kingdom (2 Corinthians 9:11).

⇐ ⇔ ⇒
Continues after advertising

See also 2 Corinthians 9:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Corinthians 9:6. _HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY_] This is a plain maxim: no man can expect to reap but in proportion as he has sowed. And here _almsgiving_ is represented as a _seed sown_, which s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THIS I SAY - This I say in order to induce you to give liberally. This I say to prevent your supposing that because it is to be a voluntary offering you may give only from your superfluity, and ma...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. EXHORTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT. CHAPTER 9 _ 1. Further Exhortations to Liberality. (2 Corinthians 9:1)_ 2. The Blessings Connected with Giving. (2 Corinthians 9:6 .) Again he exhorts them to libe...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    This concern brings him, however, to a renewed consideration of the grace or liberality, and of the blessings attached to it. He touches in succession on the proper temper of such liberality (2 Corint...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE WILLING GIVER (2 Corinthians 9:1-5)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Further, there is this--He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully. Let each man give as he has decided in his heart. Let him not give as if it h...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPARINGLY. Greek _pheidomenos._ Only here. Compare _pheidomai_, 2 Corinthians 1:23 BOUNTIFULLY. Lit, upon (Greek. _epi._ App-104.) blessings, as above. Figure of speech _Symploke._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _He which soweth sparingly_ "He calls it sowing," says Chrysostom, "in order that we may learn by the figure of the harvest that in giving we receive more than we give." Cf. Galatians 6:7-9; also Prov...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    EXHORTATION TO GIVE LIBERALLY AND CHEERFULLY Having gloried in the former readiness of the Corinthians, in order to encourage the Macedonians, and having told the Corinthians of the spontaneous genero...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΔΈ. Neither φημί (1 Corinthians 7:29) nor λέγω (Galatians 3:17) nor ἴστε (Ephesians 5:5) need be supplied, although any one of them may. ‘But as to this,’ or ‘But it is just this,’ is quite int...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _SOW BOUNTIFULLY AND REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY 2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-7:_ God's desire for our giving is that it be both willing and bountiful. Christians should give because they want to, and not because they...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΣΠΕΊΡΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΣΠΕΊΡΩ (G4687) сеять, сеять семена, ΦΕΙΔΟΜΈΝΩΣ (G5340) _adv._ скупо. Образовано из _part. от_ ΦΕΊΔΟΜΑΙ щадить, экономить, здесь: "скупо" (BAGD; Hughes), ΘΕΡΊΣΕΙ _fut....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Generous Giving Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 9:6-15. But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 4 Compulsion (2 Corinthians 9:1-7) 9 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints, -for I know your readiness, of which I boast about yo...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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)' ...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:6 blessing (a-21) 'Blessing.' The sense is plain, though the word is unusual. I note it in view of verse 6. It is the spirit in which a man gives. as God gives, freely to bless, so ought we. and suc...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(C) 9:1-15. EXHORTATIONS TO GENEROUS GIVING_ There is no need to write to you about the purpose and necessity of the collection, for your zeal in the matter is well known, and has been used by me as...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 V1 I do not really need to write to you about help for other Christians. V2 I know how eager you are to help. I have to...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HE WHICH, SOWETH SPARINGLY... — It is interesting to note the occurrence of this thought in another Epistle of this period (Galatians 6:7). HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY... — Literally, repeating the wo...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τοῦτο δὲ, ὁ σπείρων κ. τ. λ.: _but_ (_sc._, although I am not pressing you to give, _cf._ 2 Corinthians 9:1) _this I say_ (understanding φημι; _cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29; 1 Corinthians 15

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    LIBERAL GIVING IS BLESSED OF GOD....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER” 2 Corinthians 9:1 Paul evidently had considerable anxiety about the collection at Corinth for the starving saints at Jerusalem. He had started the idea, not merely becau...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In concluding this subject of the collection for the saints the apostle declares that he desires that their giving should be glad and spontaneous. He excludes two methods of giving, "grudgingly," that...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    VERSE 6 This law stands in the spiritual realm as well as the physical. The one who skimps on the planting will have a skimpy reward. Those who abundantly plant will reap in abundance....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (2) But this [I say], He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. (2) Alms must be given neither grudgingly, nor with a loathful...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (6) But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. (7) Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him g...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._Now the case is this _(719) He now commends alms-giving by a beautiful similitude, comparing it to sowing. For in sowing, the seed is cast forth by the hand, is scattered upon the ground on this si...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In the next Chapter the apostle (being on his way to Judea) exhorts the Corinthians to prepare relief for the poor of Israel; sending Titus that all might be ready as of a willing mind a disposition o...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THIS I SAY,.... This the apostle would have the Corinthians take notice of, and well consider, it being what he could aver for truth, by observation and experience; that as in things natural, so i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But this _I say_, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Ver. 6. _Which soweth bountifully_] Gr. "that soweth in blessings,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Yet have I sent the brethren_ Above mentioned before me; _lest our boasting of you should be in vain_ Lest you should be found unprepared. To _make up beforehand_ To complete before my arrival; _your...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    SHALL REAP-SPARINGLY-BOUNTIFULLY; men will be rewarded in proportion to what, from love to Christ, they do for his cause....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The gifts of Christians should be measured by the greatness of their love toward God:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT THIS I SAY, HE WHICH SOWETH SPARINGLY SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE WHICH SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY SHALL REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Paul does not stress the rightness of their ministering to the saints: this would be superfluous, for of this they were already persuaded, and so expressed themselves, so that Paul had boasted to the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-15 Money bestowed in charity, may to the carnal mind seem thrown away, but when given from proper principles, it is seed sown, from which a valuable increase may be expected. It should be given car...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whereas covetous persons think all lost which they give to charitable uses, the apostle correcteth their mistake, by letting them know, that it is no more lost than the seed is which the husbandman ca...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. [The same law which pertains to the physical world pertains with equal e...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews But let every one do as he has proposed in his heart: not as if sorrowfully, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."[366]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 9:6 But G1161 this G5124 sows G4687 (G5723) sparingly G5340 also G2532 reap G2325 (G5692) spa

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But this I say (or ‘is always so'), He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.' For the general thought see Proverbs 22:8, ‘he who sows in...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    FURTHER REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD REVEAL THEIR GENEROSITY (2 CORINTHIANS 9:1). It is often noted that this chapter appears to repeat to some extent the ideas in chapter 8, yet from a different angle, an...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 9:6. BUT THIS I SAY ‘Let this as a general principle be borne in mind,' HE THAT SOWETH SPARINGLY parsimoniously, grudgingly, SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE THAT SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY (_G...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    SPARINGLY (φειδομενως). Late and rare adverb made from the present middle participle φειδομενος from φειδομα, to spare. It occurs in Plutarch (Alex. 25)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Offering for the Jerusalem saints. Encouragement for givers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Our return in blessings will be proportionate to what we sow. Let our works of charit...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 9:1. _Touching the ministering to the saints_ in Judea, _it is superfluous for me to write to you._ What a method of finding the avenues of the heart. He knew their forwardness he had bo...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    REMEMBER THIS. Christian giving is not a sacrifice, but a planting. Paul is probably quoting a popular proverb. Results are in proportion to effort....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly._ THE WAY AND WORTH OF GENUINE BENEFICENCE I. The way. 1. Bountifully (2 Corinthians 9:6). 2. Deliberately (2 Corinthians 9:7). A spurious char...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He proceeds to stimulate the Corinthians to almsgiving by motives of human shame and praise; he bids them not to be put to shame before the liberality of the Mac...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 9:1—Connected, in word [περί, in both cases] and in fact, with 1 Corinthians 15:1, which belongs to the initiation of this “collection,” this “ministration” for the poor...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Encouragement to the Corinthians to fulfil their promises by giving speedily (2 Corinthians 9:1), amply (2 Corinthians 9:6), cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7), and thereby earn God'

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter nine. Paul has been, in the last couple of Chapter s, talking to them about the collection that he wanted them to take for the poor in Jerusalem....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 15:20; 1 Corinthians 7:29; 2 Corinthians 9:10;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Bountifully [ε π ε υ λ ο γ ι α ι ς]. Lit., with blessings. Compare 1 Corinthians 9:10, "plow in hope [ε π ε λ π ι δ ι]....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly; he that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully — A general rule. God will proportion the reward to the work, and the temper whence it proceeds....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here the apostle comes to direct the Corinthians how and after what manner they should give their alms, so as to secure. blessing, namely, deliberately. 1. AS HE PURPOSETH IN HIS HEART SO LET HIM GIVE...

Continues after advertising