1 For concerning the ministration which {is} for the saints, it is superfluous my writing to you.
2 For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and the zeal {reported} of you has stimulated the mass {of the brethren}.
3 But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;
4 lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, *we*, that we say not *ye*, may be put to shame in this confidence.
5 I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.
6 But this {is true}, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in {the spirit of} blessing shall reap also in blessing:
7 each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:
9 according as it is written, He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness remains for ever.
10 Now he that supplies seed to the sower and bread for eating shall supply and make abundant your sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
11 enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
12 Because the ministration of this service is not only filling up the measure of what is lacking to the saints, but also abounding by many thanksgivings to God;
13 they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;
14 and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God {which is} upon you.
15 Thanks {be} to God for his unspeakable free gift.
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。