1 关于供应圣徒的事， 我本来没有写信给你们的必要， 2 因为我知道你们有这个心愿。我对马其顿人称赞你们， 说： "亚该亚人去年已经预备好了。"你们的热心就激励了许多的人。 3 我派了那几位弟兄前来， 为了要使我们在这事上对你们的称赞不至落空， 好让你们可以照着我所说的准备妥当， 4 免得一旦马其顿人和我一同来到的时候， 见你们还没有准备好， 我们就因为这样信任你们而感到羞愧， 你们就更不用说了。 5 因此， 我认为必须劝那几位弟兄先到你们那里去， 使你们事先筹足从前所答应的捐款。那么， 你们这样的准备， 就是出于乐意的， 不是勉强的。 6 还有， 少种的少收， 多种的多收。 7 各人要照着心里所决定的捐输， 不要为难， 不必勉强， 因为捐得乐意的人， 是 神所喜爱的。 8 神能把各样的恩惠多多地加给你们， 使你们凡事常常充足， 多作各样的善事。 9 如经上所说： "他广施钱财， 赒济穷人； 他的仁义， 存到永远。" 10 但那赐种子给撒种的， 又赐食物给人吃的 神， 必定把种子加倍地供给你们， 也必增添你们的义果。 11 你们既然凡事富裕， 就可以慷慨地捐输， 使众人借着我们， 对 神生出感谢的心。 12 因为这供应的事， 不仅补足了圣徒的缺乏， 也使许多人对 神感谢的心格外增多。 13 众圣徒因为你们承认和服从了基督的福音， 并且慷慨地捐输给他们和众人， 借着你们在这供应的事上所得的凭据， 就把荣耀归给 神。 14 因着 神在你们身上的厚恩， 他们就为你们祷告， 切切地想念你们。 15 感谢 神， 他的恩赐难以形容。

1 For, indeed, concerning the ministration that [is] for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,2 for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,3 and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,4 lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.5 Necessary, therefore, I thought [it] to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.6 And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;7 each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,8 and God [is] able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,9 (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,`)10 and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,11 in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,12 because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God,13 through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and [for] the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,14 and by their supplication in your behalf, longing after you because of the exceeding grace of God upon you;15 thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!