2 Corinthians 9:5

New American Bible - revised edition

So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.

Cross References

Genesis 33:11

Accept the gift I have brought you. For God has been generous toward me, and I have an abundance.” Since he urged him strongly, Esau accepted.

2 Kings 5:15

He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before him and said, “Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant.”

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of the week each of you should set aside and save whatever he can afford, so that collections will not be going on when I come.

2 Corinthians 8:6

so that we urged Titus that, as he had already begun, he should also complete for you this gracious act also.

2 Corinthians 9:3

Nonetheless, I sent the brothers so that our boast about you might not prove empty in this case, so that you might be ready, as I said,

2 Corinthians 9:6

Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Philippians 4:17

It is not that I am eager for the gift; rather, I am eager for the profit that accrues to your account.

Judges 1:15

She answered, “Give me a present. Since you have put me in the land of the Negeb, give me pools of water.” So Caleb gave her what she wanted, both the upper and the lower pool.

1 Samuel 25:27

Accept this gift, then, which your maidservant has brought for my lord, and let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

1 Samuel 30:26

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “This is a gift to you from the plunder of the enemies of the Lord,” namely,