1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. 3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. 5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness. 6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; 14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. 15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable 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。