哥林多后书 9
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
捐助的动机
9 关于服事[a]圣徒的事,其实我不必给你们写什么, 2 因为我知道你们的乐意之心。为此,我向马其顿人夸耀你们,说:“亚该亚人从去年就已经准备好了。”你们的热心激励了他们中的大多数人。 3 不过我派这些弟兄去,是为了我们在这方面对你们的夸耀不至于落空,好让你们能照着我所说的准备好; 4 免得万一有些马其顿人和我一起来,发现你们并没有预备好,我们就会因着对你们的确信而蒙羞,更不用说你们了。 5 所以,我认为必须鼓励这些弟兄先到你们那里去,把你们已经许诺的惠赠[b]提前安排好,这样就表明你们所预备好的就是惠赠[c],而不是被强取的。
6 又有这话:播撒吝啬的人,也收获吝啬;播撒祝福的人,也收获祝福。 7 每个人要照着心里预先定好的,不要为难,也不要勉强,因为神喜爱那乐意给与的人。 8 神能使一切的恩典丰丰富富地临到你们,使你们总是在一切事上都能知足,在一切美善的工作上充实满溢。 9 正如经上所记:
“他施舍,赐予穷人;
他的义行永远常存。”[d]
10 供应种子给撒种的,又供应粮食给人吃的那一位,将要供给并增加你们的种子,而且增多你们义行的果子, 11 使你们在一切事上都得以富足,以致十分慷慨,就藉着我们生出对神的感谢之心。 12 因为这服事的工作[e],不仅补足了圣徒们的缺乏,并且能藉着对神的许多感谢而充实满溢。 13 他们藉着这次服事[f]的凭证,因你们顺服了那为基督福音所做的告白,也因你们给他们和众人的慷慨分享[g],他们就会荣耀神; 14 并且他们因着神赐给你们这无限的恩典,就切切地想念你们,为你们祈祷。 15 感谢神,因他有无法描述的恩赐[h]!
Footnotes
- 哥林多后书 9:1 服事——或译作“供应”。
- 哥林多后书 9:5 惠赠——原文直译“祝福”。
- 哥林多后书 9:5 惠赠——原文直译“祝福”。
- 哥林多后书 9:9 《诗篇》112:9。
- 哥林多后书 9:12 服事的工作——或译作“供应的事”。
- 哥林多后书 9:13 服事——或译作“供应”。
- 哥林多后书 9:13 分享——或译作“捐献”。
- 哥林多后书 9:15 恩赐——指“藉着他的独生子所施行的救恩”。
哥林多後書 9
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
9 關於捐助聖徒的事,其實我不必再寫信提醒你們, 2 因我知道你們的熱心。我向馬其頓教會的人誇耀你們,說亞該亞人的捐款在一年前就預備好了,你們的熱心激勵了許多人。 3 現在我先派這幾位弟兄到你們那裡,以便你們把捐款預備好,正如我所說的那樣,免得我們在這件事上誇耀你們的話成了虛言。 4 因為萬一有馬其頓的人與我同去,發現你們並沒有準備好,不但我們會因如此信任你們而羞愧,你們也會無地自容。 5 因此,我認為有必要請那幾位弟兄先去你們那裡,將你們從前認捐的款項收集妥當,這樣就表明你們的捐贈是出於甘心樂意,而不是出於勉強。
甘心樂意地捐助
6 要記住:「少種的少收,多種的多收。」 7 各人心裡想捐多少就捐多少,不要勉強,不要為難。因為捐得甘心樂意的人才是上帝所喜愛的。 8 上帝能夠將各樣的恩典多多賜給你們,使你們在各方面常常富足有餘,可以多行各樣的善事。 9 正如聖經上說:
「他慷慨施捨、賙濟窮人,
他的仁義永遠長存。」
10 賜農夫種子又賜人糧食的上帝,必加倍賜給你們種子,使你們收穫更多仁義的果子, 11 叫你們事事豐裕,可以多多施捨。這樣,從我們這裡得到你們幫助的人便會向上帝獻上感恩。 12 因為這件善事不單可以幫助經濟困難的聖徒,也使許多人對上帝充滿感恩。 13 通過這件善事,他們會把榮耀歸給上帝,因為看見你們信服基督的福音,慷慨地幫助他們及眾人。 14 他們也會因上帝賜給你們的豐盛恩典而熱切地為你們禱告。 15 感謝上帝,祂的恩賜真是無以言表!
2 Corinthians 9
King James Version
9 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2 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.
3 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:
4 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.
5 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.
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 give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
8 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:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
10 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;)
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
13 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;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
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