2 Corinthians 9:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

2 Corinthians 9:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 6:10
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Thessalonians 4:9-10
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. …
2 Corinthians 8:4-15
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. …
2 Corinthians 9:12-14
For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; …
1 Thessalonians 5:1
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

In these verses the apostle speaks very respectfully to the Corinthians, and with great skill; and, while he seems to excuse his urging them so earnestly to charity, still presses them thereto, and shows how much his heart was set upon this matter. I. He tells them it was needless to press them with further arguments to afford relief to their poor brethren (2 Cor. 9:1), being satisfied he had said…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

2Co 9:1-15. Reasons for His Sending Titus. The Greater Their Bountifulness, the More Shall Be the Return of Blessing to Them, and Thanksgiving to God. 1. For--connected with 2Co 8:16: “Show love to the messengers of the churches; for as concerns the ministration for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you who are so forward already.” write--emphatical: It is superfluous to “write,” fo…