¹捐得乐意的人为　神喜爱

¹It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

²因为我知道你们有这个心愿。我对马其顿人称赞你们，说：“亚该亚人去年已经预备好了。”你们的热心就激励了许多的人。

²for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

³我派了那几位弟兄前来，为了要使我们在这事上对你们的称赞不至落空，好让你们可以照着我所说的准备妥当，

³But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

⁴免得一旦马其顿人和我一同来到的时候，见你们还没有准备好，我们就因为这样信任你们而感到羞愧，你们就更不用说了。

⁴so that I won’t by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

⁵因此，我认为必须劝那几位弟兄先到你们那里去，使你们事先筹足从前所答应的捐款。那么，你们这样的准备，就是出于乐意的，不是勉强的。

⁵I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

⁶还有，少种的少收，多种的多收。

⁶Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

⁷各人要照着心里所决定的捐输，不要为难，不必勉强，因为捐得乐意的人，是　神所喜爱的。

⁷Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

⁸　神能把各样的恩惠多多地加给你们，使你们凡事常常充足，多作各样的善事。

⁸And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

⁹如经上所说：“他广施钱财，赒济穷人；他的仁义，存到永远。”

⁹As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.” Psalm 112:9

¹⁰但那赐种子给撒种的，又赐食物给人吃的　神，必定把种子加倍地供给你们，也必增添你们的义果。

¹⁰Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

¹¹你们既然凡事富裕，就可以慷慨地捐输，使众人借着我们，对　神生出感谢的心。

¹¹you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

¹²因为这供应的事，不仅补足了圣徒的缺乏，也使许多人对　神感谢的心格外增多。

¹²For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

¹³众圣徒因为你们承认和服从了基督的福音，并且慷慨地捐输给他们和众人，借着你们在这供应的事上所得的凭据，就把荣耀归给　神。

¹³seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

¹⁴因着　神在你们身上的厚恩，他们就为你们祷告，切切地想念你们。

¹⁴while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

¹⁵感谢　神，他的恩赐难以形容。

¹⁵Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!