2 Corinthians 9:5 - Easy To Read Version

⁵ So I thought that I should ask these brothers to go to you before we come. They will finish making ready the gift you promised. Then the gift will be ready when we come, and it will be a gift you wanted to give—not a gift that you hated to give.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ That is why I thought it necessary to urge these brethren to go to you before I do and make arrangements in advance for this bountiful, promised gift of yours, so that it may be ready, not as an extortion [wrung out of you] but as a generous and willing gift.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

Common English Bible

⁵ This is why I thought it was necessary to encourage the brothers to go to you ahead of time and arrange in advance the generous gift you have already promised. I want it to be a real gift from you. I don’t want you to feel like you are being forced to give anything.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Therefore, I considered it necessary to ask the brothers to go to you in advance and to prepare this blessing as promised, and in this way, you may be ready as a blessing, not as an excess.

2 Corinthians 9:5 Referencias Cruzadas

1 Samuel 25:27

Now, I am bringing this gift to you. Please give these things to your men.

Genesis 33:11

So I beg that you also accept the gifts I give you. God has been very good to me. I have more than I need.” In this way Jacob begged Esau to take the gifts. So Esau accepted the gifts.

Philippians 4:17

Really, it is not that I want to get gifts from you. But I want you to have the good that comes \{from giving\}.

2 Corinthians 8:6

So we asked Titus to help you finish this special work of grace (kindness). Titus is the one who started this work.

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of every week each one of you should save as much money as you can from what you are blessed with. You should put this money in a special place and keep it there. Then you will not have to gather your money after I come.

2 Kings 5:15

Naaman and all his group came back to the man of God [48] (Elisha). He stood before Elisha and said, “Look, I now know there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now please accept a gift from me!”

1 Samuel 30:26

David arrived in Ziklag. Then he sent some of the things he took {from the Amalekites} to his friends, the leaders of Judah. David said, “Here is a present for you. {We took these things from} the Lord’s enemies.”

Judges 1:15

Acsah answered Caleb, “Give me a blessing. [6] You gave me dry desert land in the Negev. [7] Please give me some land with water on it.” So Caleb gave her what she wanted. He gave her the upper and lower pools of water in that land.

2 Corinthians 9:3

But I am sending the brothers to you. I don’t want our boasting about you in this to be for nothing. I want you to be ready like I said you would be.

2 Corinthians 9:6

Remember this: The person who plants little will harvest only a little. But the person who plants much will harvest much.