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”。
2 Corinthians 9
GOD’S WORD Translation
The Reason to Give to the Christians in Jerusalem
9 I don’t need to write anything further to you about helping the Christians ⌞in Jerusalem⌟. 2 I know how willing you are to help, and I brag about you to the believers in the province of Macedonia. I tell them, “The people of Greece have been ready ⌞to send their collection⌟ since last year,” and your enthusiasm has moved most of them ⌞to act⌟. 3 I’ve sent my coworkers so that when we brag that you’re ready, we can back it up. 4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me, they might find out that you’re not ready after all. This would embarrass us for feeling so confident as much as it would embarrass you. 5 So I thought that I should encourage our coworkers to visit you before I do and make arrangements for this gift that you had already promised to give. Then it will be the blessing it was intended to be, and it won’t be something you’re forced to do.
6 Remember this: The farmer who plants a few seeds will have a very small harvest. But the farmer who plants because he has received God’s blessings will receive a harvest of God’s blessings in return. 7 Each of you should give whatever you have decided. You shouldn’t be sorry that you gave or feel forced to give, since God loves a cheerful giver. 8 Besides, God will give you his constantly overflowing kindness.[a] Then, when you always have everything you need, you can do more and more good things. 9 Scripture says,
“The person with God’s approval gives freely to the poor.
The things he does with God’s approval continue forever.”
10 God gives seed to the farmer and food to those who need to eat. God will also give you seed and multiply it. In your lives he will increase the things you do that have his approval. 11 God will make you rich enough so that you can always be generous. Your generosity will produce thanksgiving to God because of us. 12 What you do to serve others not only provides for the needs of God’s people, but also produces more and more prayers of thanksgiving to God. 13 You will honor God through this genuine act of service because of your commitment to spread the Good News of Christ and because of your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else. 14 With deep affection they will pray for you because of the extreme kindness that God has shown you. 15 I thank God for his gift that words cannot describe.
Footnotes
- 9:8 Or “grace.”
2 Corinthians 9
New International Version
9 There is no need(A) for me to write to you about this service(B) to the Lord’s people.(C) 2 For I know your eagerness to help,(D) and I have been boasting(E) about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year(F) you in Achaia(G) were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. 3 But I am sending the brothers(H) in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.(I) 4 For if any Macedonians(J) come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers(K) to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift,(L) not as one grudgingly given.(M)
Generosity Encouraged
6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.(N) 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,(O) not reluctantly or under compulsion,(P) for God loves a cheerful giver.(Q) 8 And God is able(R) to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need,(S) you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written:
10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food(V) will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.(W) 11 You will be enriched(X) in every way so that you can be generous(Y) on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.(Z)
12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs(AA) of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.(AB) 13 Because of the service(AC) by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God(AD) for the obedience that accompanies your confession(AE) of the gospel of Christ,(AF) and for your generosity(AG) in sharing with them and with everyone else. 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15 Thanks be to God(AH) for his indescribable gift!(AI)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 9:9 Psalm 112:9
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