you will be enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing 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.
- BSB You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, so that through us your giving will produce thanksgiving to God.
- NKJV while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us 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 6:17–18Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
- 1 Chr 29:12–14Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!
- 2 Cor 4:15For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
- 2 Cor 9:12For 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;
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- 2 Cor 1:11you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
- 2 Cor 8:19Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- 2 Cor 8:2–3how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
- 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
- 1 Cor 1:5that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
- 2 Chr 31:10Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”
- Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
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