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2 Corinthians 9:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

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But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds —

I ask this favour of you, my brothers. The household of Stephanas, you know, was the first to be reaped in Achaia, and they have laid themselves out to serve the saints.

Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia;

besides, he has been appointed by the churches to travel with me on the business of administering this fund to the glory of the Lord. His appointment has my full consent,

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

PAUL an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and brother Timotheus, to the church of God at Corinth as well as to all the saints throughout the whole of Achaia:

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

After a lapse of several years I came up with alms and offerings for my nation,

For Macedonia and Achaia have decided to make a contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

I told him of my pride in you, and I have not been disappointed. No, just as all I have had to say to you has been true, so all I said about you to Titus, all my pride in you, has also proved true.

Now, carry it through, so that your readiness to take it up may be equalled by the way you carry it through — so far as your means allow.




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