2 Corinthians 9:5

The English Standar Version

So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.[2]

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:27

And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Genesis 33:11

Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

Philippians 4:17

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.[3]

2 Corinthians 8:6

Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.

1 Corinthians 16:2

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

2 Kings 5:15

Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant."

1 Samuel 30:26

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD."

Judges 1:15

She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

2 Corinthians 9:3

But I am sending[1] the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.

2 Corinthians 9:6

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