2 Corinthians 9:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And [God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness [which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness, and charity]. [Isa. 55:10; Hos. 10:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The one who supplies seed for planting and bread for eating will supply and multiply your seed and will increase your crop, which is righteousness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And he who ministers seed to the sower will offer you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and will increase the growth of the fruits of your justice.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And he that ministereth seed to the sower, will both give you bread to eat, and will multiply your seed, and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

2 Corinthians 9:10 Cross References

Genesis 47:19

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Proverbs 11:18

A wicked man earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 55:10

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain salvation upon you.

Matthew 6:1

“Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 Corinthians 9:12

for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God.

2 Corinthians 9:6

The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Galatians 3:5

Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Ephesians 5:9

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift; but I seek the fruit which increases to your credit.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you,

1 Thessalonians 4:10

and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,