\subsection{II Corinthians 9}
\VS{1} For concerning the service to the holy [ones] it is superfluous for me to be 
writing to you. 
\VS{2} For I knew your eagerness of which I boast concerning 
you in Macedonia, that Achaia was prepared since last year, and your zeal 
has provoked many. 
\VS{3} So I sent the brothers, lest our boast concerning 
you be emptied in this matter, in order that, just as I was saying, you be 
prepared, 
\VS{4} lest if the Macedonians come with me and find you 
unprepared, we be shamed --- in order that we not say: You [be shamed] --- in this 
assurance. 
\VS{5} I considered it necessary therefore to call upon the 
brothers, in order that they come to you and prepare beforehand your 
previously promised bounty, [that] this [be] prepared as bounty and not as exaction. 
\VS{6} So this [I say], the [one] sowing sparingly --- sparingly will also reap, and the 
[one] sowing bountifully --- bountifully will also reap. 
\VS{7} Each, just as he 
has decided in his heart, [let him give], not from pain or necessity, for God agape-loves 
[a] cheerful giver. 
\VS{8} For God is able to abound every grace to you in 
order that, in everything always having every sufficiency, you abound to 
every good work, 
\VS{9} just as it is written:

\begin{verse}
He has scattered, he has given to the needy, \\
His justness abides to eternity.
\end{verse}

\VS{10} So the [one] supplying seed to the [one] sowing and bread for food will 
provide and will multiply our seed and will increase the products [of your] 
justness, 
\VS{11} in everything being made rich for every generosity, which 
works, through us, thanksgiving to God. 
\VS{12} For the service of this 
ministry not only supplies the needs of the holy [ones], but also [is] abundant 
through many thanks to God, 
\VS{13} [who are] through proof of this service 
glorifying God for the obedience [of your] confession to the good-news of Christ, 
and [for the] liberality of the fellowship to them and to all, 
\VS{14} and [for] their 
entreaty concerning you, longing for you on account of the surpassing grace 
of God among you. 
\VS{15} Grace [be] to God for his indescribable gift.
