2 Corinthians · Chapter 9

[ edit] Forwhi of þe mynyſterie þat is maad into hooly men, it is to me of haboundaunt, or plente, for to wryte to ȝou. Forſoþ I woot ȝoure ynwitt redy, for þe which I haue glorie of ȝou anentis Macedonyes, for and Acaye is redi fro a ȝeer paſſid, and ȝoure loue haþ ſtirid ful manye. Forſoþ we han ſent briþeren, þat þat þing þat we glorien in ȝou, be not auoydid in þis partie, þat as I ſeyde, ȝe be redy. Leſt when Macedonyes ſchulen come wiþ me, and ſchulen fynde ȝou vnredy, we ſchamen, þat we ſeye ȝou not, in þis ſubſtaunce. Þerfore I geſſide neceſſarie for to praye briþeren, þat þei come bifore to ȝou, and make redy þis bihiȝt bleſſynge for to be redy, ſo as bleſſinge, not as auarice.

Þis þing forſoþe I ſeye, for he þat ſowiþ ſcarſly, ſchal and ſcarſly repe; and he þat ſowiþ in bleſſingis, ſchal repe and of bleſſyngis. Ech man as he caſtide in his herte, not of heuyneſſe, or of nede; forſoþ God loueþ a glad ȝyuere. Forſoþe God is myȝty for to make al grace abounde in ȝou, þat ȝe in alle þingis euermore hauynge al ſufficience, abounde in to al good work; as it is writun, He delide a brood, he ȝaf to pore men, his riȝtwiſneſſe dwelliþ into wiþouten ende.

Forſoþ he þat myniſtriþ ſeed to þe man ſowynge, and ſchal ȝyue breed for to ete, and he ſchal multiplie ȝoure ſeed, and make moche þe encreſyngis of fruytis of ȝoure riȝtwyſneſſe; þat in alle þingis ȝe maad ryche habounde in to alle ſympleneſſe, þe which worchiþ by vs doynge of þankyngis to God. For þe myniſterie of þis office not oonly filliþ þo þingis þat faylen to hooly men, but alſo aboundiþ by manye in doynge of þankingis to þe Lord, by prouynge of þis mynyſterie, glorifiynge God in þe obedience of ȝoure knowleching in þe goſpel of Criſt, and in ſympleneſſe of comynycacioun into hem and into alle, and in þe biſechinge of hem for ȝou, deſyringe ȝou for þe clere grace in ȝou.

I do þankingis to God vpon þe vnenarrable, or þat may not be told, ȝifte of hym.