Now the point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly[a] or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to cause all grace to abound to you, so that in everything at all times, because you[b] have enough of everything, you may overflow in every good work. Just as it is written,

“He scattered widely, he gave to the poor;
his righteousness remains forever[c].”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:7 Literally “out of sorrow”
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have”) which is understood as causal
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:9 Literally “for the age”
  4. 2 Corinthians 9:9 A quotation from Ps 112:9