2 Corinthians 9:1

With reference, indeed, to the Fund for your fellow-Christians, it is quite superfluous for me to say anything to you.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

In Context

2I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:31As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God —

2 Corinthians 8:4and with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow-Christians.

Galatians 2:10Only we were to remember the poor — the very thing I was myself anxious to do.

Philippians 3:5I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by race, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 9:1

In this chapter the apostle seems to excuse his earnestness in pressing the Corinthians to the duty of charity ( ver. 1-5 ), and proceeds to give directions about the acceptable way and manner of performing it, namely, bountifully, deliberately, and freely; and gives good encouragement for so doing, ver. 6, to the end . Read the whole commentary →

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