- 9:1 For concerning the ministry to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you;
关于供给圣徒的事，写信给你们，于我原是多余的。
- 9:2 For I know your eagerness, of which I boast on your behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year; and your zeal has stirred up the greater number of them.
因为我知道你们的热切，就是我常对马其顿人所夸耀你们的，说亚该亚人在一年前就预备好了；你们的热心便激动了许多人。
- 9:3 But I sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf might not be made void in this respect, that, as I said, you might be prepared;
但我打发那几位弟兄去，使我们在这方面为你们所夸耀的，不至于落空，好叫你们照我所说的预备好，
- 9:4 Lest, if the Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, be put to shame in this confidence.
免得万一有马其顿人与我同去，发现你们没有预备好，就叫我们所确信的蒙羞，你们就更不用说了。
- 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to entreat the brothers to go before to you and make ready beforehand your previously promised blessing, that thus this might be ready as a blessing and not as a matter of covetousness.
所以，我想必须劝那几位弟兄先到你们那里去，把你们先前所应许的祝福事前安排好，使这事如此预备好了，就成为受者的祝福，而不成为施者的贪婪。
- 9:6 But take note of this: He who sows sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who sows with blessings shall also with blessings reap;
还有，少种的少收，多种的多收。
- 9:7 Each one as he has purposed in his heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
各人要照心里所酌定的，不要作难，不要勉强，因为神喜爱乐意施与的人。
- 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound unto you, that, in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound unto every good work;
神能使各样的恩典向你们洋溢，使你们在凡事上常常十分充足，能洋溢出各样的善工。
- 9:9 Even as it is written, "He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness abides forever.''
就如经上所记：“他分施周济贫贱，他的义存到永远。”
- 9:10 Now He who bountifully supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and cause the fruits of your righteousness to increase.
那丰富供应种子给撒种者，并丰富供应粮食作食物的，必供应并繁增你们的种子，又增添你们义的果子，
- 9:11 You in everything are being enriched unto all liberality, which works out through us thanksgiving to God,
使你们凡事富足，以致十分慷慨，就借着我们对神生出感谢；
- 9:12 Because the ministry of this service is not only filling up the lack of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God.
因为这服事的供应，不但补足圣徒的缺乏，也借着许多对神的感谢而洋溢。
- 9:13 They, through the approving of this ministry, are glorifying God based upon the subjection unto the gospel of Christ that issues from your confession, and upon the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all;
他们因着你们承认基督的福音而有的服从，以及你们对他们和众人慷慨的交通，就称许这供给的事，藉以荣耀神。
- 9:14 While in petition on your behalf they also long after you on account of the surpassing grace of God upon you.
他们也因神在你们身上超越的恩典，切切的想念你们，为你们祈求。
- 9:15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
感谢神，为着祂难以形容的恩赐。