2 Corinthians 9:6

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - 2 Corinthians 9:1-7

“God Loveth a Cheerful Giver” 2 Corinthians 9:1-7 Paul evidently had considerable anxiety about the collection at Corinth for the starving saints at Jerusalem. He had started the idea, not merely because of his affection toward his own people, but in order to promote and foster the unity of the Church of Christ. There could be no greater evidence of the transforming power of the gospel than that it should obliterate the strongly-marked differences between East and West, between Jew and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

In concluding this subject of the collection for the saints the apostle declares that he desires that their giving should be glad and spontaneous. He excludes two methods of giving, "grudgingly," that is, very literally, sorrowfully. It is the giving of those who have not first given themselves, and consequently are conscious of the loss of that which is given. "Or of necessity," that is, giving as simply an act of duty, and not from an impulse of delight. On the contrary, he says, "God loveth... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

A PLEA CONCERNING THE PAYING OF THEIR ‘DEBT’ TO THE JERUSALEM CHURCH BY MEANS OF ‘THE COLLECTION’ WHICH WAS TO BE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE EXTREME POVERTY OF THE SAINTS IN THAT CHURCH AND WHICH WOULD ITSELF BE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FORWARD GOING OF THE OVERALL PURPOSES OF GOD (2 Corinthians 8:1 to 2 Corinthians 9:15 ). This next section of the letter deals with Paul’s activities in collecting money for "the poor among the saints in Jerusalem" (Romans 15:26). He had declared his great concern... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 9:6

‘But this I say (or ‘is always so’), He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.’ For the general thought see Proverbs 22:8-9, ‘he who sows iniquity will reap calamity -- he who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.’ Meditating on this may well have spurred Paul on into inventing his own proverbs in this vein, which he applied to this particular situation. Compare Galatians 6:7-8 where a similar... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

2 Corinthians 9:6-Ezra : . This concern brings him, however, to a renewed consideration of the grace or liberality, and of the blessings attached to it. He touches in succession on the proper temper of such liberality ( 2 Corinthians 9:6 f.), viz. generous self-determination to sacrifice, such as meets with the Divine approval (quotation from Proverbs 22:8, LXX), the source both of the impulse and of the means for such liberality ( 2 Corinthians 9:8 ff.), and the ultimate issue of it in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Corinthians 9:6

Whereas covetous persons think all lost which they give to charitable uses, the apostle correcteth their mistake, by letting them know, that it is no more lost than the seed is which the husbandman casteth into his ground, which bringeth forth thirty, sixty, or sometimes a hundred-fold; though with this difference, that whereas the husbandman’s crop dependeth upon the goodness and preparedness of his ground, it is not so with this spiritual crop; a man shall not reap according to the nature of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

CRITICAL NOTES2 Corinthians 9:1—Connected, in word [περί, in both cases] and in fact, with 1 Corinthians 15:1, which belongs to the initiation of this “collection,” this “ministration” for the poor “saints” of the Church at Jerusalem, as this does to the conclusion of the financial effort. Superfluous.—Yet he had been dealing with it, in chap, 8, and here urges motives to liberality (2 Corinthians 9:6 sqq.). Was there no need to speak of it? Was this Christian simplicity of truth? Yes (see... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter nine.Paul has been, in the last couple of chapters, talking to them about the collection that he wanted them to take for the poor in Jerusalem. The church in Jerusalem had gone through a lot of problems, severe persecution. And the Christians in Jerusalem were in great physical need. And so, Paul is asking the Gentile churches to show their love in the body of Christ for their brothers in Jerusalem by sending an offering by his hand to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

2 Corinthians 9:1 . Touching the ministering to the saints in Judea, it is superfluous for me to write to you. What a method of finding the avenues of the heart. He knew their forwardness he had boasted of it in Macedonia. Being himself the model of every virtue, he had their hearts, and their cash at his command. Opulent Corinth being a proverb, he was the bolder to glean in Boaz’s field. 2 Corinthians 9:3 . Yet have I sent the brethren. Though he knew the power of charity, yet he... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Corinthians 9:6

2 Corinthians 9:6He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly.The way and worth of genuine beneficenceI. The way.1. Bountifully (2 Corinthians 9:6).2. Deliberately (2 Corinthians 9:7). A spurious charity gives from impulse or pressure.3. Cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7).II. The worth. It is the most valuable thing in the universe.1. In its issues.(1) It confers happiness on the man who practises it. He will be “blessed in his deed.”(2) It ensures the blessing of the Almighty.(a) He sees... read more

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