You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.
Parallel translations
- WEB you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.
- KJV Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
- NKJV while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.
- NASB you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing thanksgiving to God.
- NLT Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God.
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Quick answer
God enriches the Corinthians in every way so they can be generous, and their generosity, channeled through Paul, produces thanksgiving to God. Giving overflows into worship.
Overview
Paul connects God's enriching grace to liberal giving and its ultimate fruit: gratitude to God. The collection is more than relief for the poor; as it passes through Paul's ministry, it stirs many to thank God. Christian generosity is designed to magnify the Giver of all good gifts.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Tim 6:17–18Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- 1 Chr 29:12–14Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.
- 2 Cor 4:15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may overflow in thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
- 2 Cor 9:12For this ministry of service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanksgiving to God.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- 2 Cor 1:11as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.
- 2 Cor 8:19More than that, this brother was chosen by the churches to accompany us with the offering—the gracious gift we administer to honor the Lord Himself and to show our eagerness to help.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- 2 Cor 8:2–3In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
- 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.
- 1 Cor 1:5For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
- 2 Chr 31:10and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
- Rom 12:8if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
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