2 Coríntios 9

1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, 2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. 3 But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, 4 lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting. 5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. 9 As it is written,

"He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor.

His righteousness remains forever."✝9:9 Psalms 112:9

10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11 you being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God, 13 seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all, 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

Āwhinatia te Hunga Rawakore

1 Nā, mō te minitatanga ki te hunga tapu, kāhore noa he tikanga i tuhituhi atu ai ahau ki a koutou. 2 E mōhio ana hoki ahau ki tō koutou ngākau hihiko, i whakamanamanatia ai koutou e ahau ki ngā tāngata o Makeronia, arā, ko tā Akāia kua rite noa ake i tērā tau rā anō; ā, he tokomaha o rātou i oho i tō koutou ngākau hihiri. 3 Heoi, kua tonoa atu nei e ahau ngā tēina, kei whakakāhoretia tēnei wāhi o tāku whakamanamana ki tā koutou mahi; kia rite ai tā koutou, kia pērā ai me tāku i mea ai. 4 Kei tūpono, ka haere atu i ahau ētahi o Makeronia, ā, ka rokohanga atu kāhore anō kia rite noa tā koutou, nā, ko te whakamā mō mātou, e kore mātou e kī mō koutou, i tēnei whakamanamana e kaha nei. 5 Koia ahau i whakaaro ai he tika kia whakahaua ngā tēina, kia haere atu rātou i mua ki a koutou, kia wawe te rite i a rātou tēnei manaaki a koutou kua kōrerotia rā, kia noho rite, kia tū-ā-manaaki ai, kei rite ki te mea e manawapātia ana.

6 Ko tāku ia tēnei, he torutoru a tētahi i rui ai, he torutoru anō āna e kokoti ai; ā, ko te mea he maha āna i rui ai, he maha anō āna e kokoti ai. 7 Kia rite te mahi a ia tangata ki tāna i whakaaro ai i roto i tōna ngākau; kaua e tū-ā-pōuri, kaua e whakauaua. Ko tā te Atua hoki e aroha ai, ko te tangata ringa māhorahora. 8 E taea anō hoki e te Atua te mea kia hira ngā aroha noa katoa ki a koutou; nā, i te mea ka ranea nā ō koutou taonga i ngā mea katoa i ngā wā katoa, kia hira anō ā koutou mahi pai katoa. 9 Kia rite ai ki te mea i tuhituhia:

"Kua tītaritaria e ia, kua hoatu e ia ki te hunga rawakore;

he pūmau tonu tōna tika ake ake."

10 Nā, mā te kaihōmai i te purapura ki te kaiwhakatō, i te taro hoki hei kai, e hōmai, e mea kia maha tā koutou e whakatō ai, e whakanui hoki ngā hua o tō koutou tika; 11 me te hua anō ō koutou taonga i ngā mea katoa hei ohaoha, e puta ai i a mātou ngā whakawhetai ki te Atua.

12 Nā tēnei mahi hoki e minitatia nei i whiwhi ai te hunga tapu ki ngā mea i kore i a rātou, ā, nā reira anō i hua noa atu ai ngā whakawhetai ki te Atua. 13 Nā te mea hoki ka kitea koutou i tēnei mahi minita, ka whakakorōria rātou i te Atua mō koutou kua whakaae nei, kua ngohengohe nei ki te rongopai o te Karaiti, ā, mō tō koutou pono ki ā koutou ohaoha ki a rātou me te katoa; 14 i a rātou anō e īnoi ana mō koutou, me te kōingo anō rātou ki a koutou, he whakaaro hoki ki te aroha noa o te Atua ka nui rawa nei ki a koutou. 15 Me whakawhetai ki te Atua mō tāna mea hōmai noa, e kore nei e taea te kōrero!