MODERN LITERAL VERSION

9:1 For* indeed, concerning the relief service *for the holy-ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you*:
9:2 for* I know your* eagerness, of which I am boasting on your* behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared in the past-year, and the zeal from you* has stimulated most of them.
9:3 But I have sent the brethren, that* our boasting on your* behalf may not be made void in this respect; that*, just-as I said, you* may have been prepared;
9:4 lest, if any Macedonians come with me and might find you* unprepared, we (that* we should not say, you*) should be ashamed in this firmness of boasting.
9:5 Therefore I deemed it necessary to encourage the brethren, that* they should go beforehand to you* and should prearrange your* proclaimed {F} bounty. That this is to be ready, as a {F} bounty and not as something from greed.
9:6 But I say this , He who is sowing sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who is sowing upon his {F} bounty will also reap upon his {F} bounty.
9:7 Let each man give just-as he proposes in his heart; not out of sorrow or out of {F} necessity; for* God loves* a joyful giver.
9:8 Now God is able to make all grace abound to you*; that* having all self-sufficiency in everything, you* may always abound to every good work;
9:9 as it has been written, ‘He has scattered them, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.' {Ps. 112:9}
9:10 Now he who is supplying seed to the sower and bread *for food, may supply and may multiply your* seed and may cause the growth of the fruits of your* righteousness.
9:11 You* are enriched in everything to all liberality, which is working through us thanksgiving to God.
9:12 Because the service of this ministry* not only is replenishing the lacks of things of the holy-ones, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God;
9:13 because through the trial of you * from this service they are glorifying God upon the subjection of your* confession to the good-news of Christ and at the liberality of your * generosity toward them and toward all;
9:14 and in their supplication on your* behalf, a longing for you* because of the surpassing grace of God upon you*.
9:15 But gratitude is to God for his indescribable gift.
{Footnotes: 2Co 9:5-6 Elsewhere ‘blessing.' 2Co 9:7 Or maybe: compulsion. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for.}