2nd Corinthians Chapter 9 verse 1 Holy Bible
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:
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For concerning the ministration which [is] for the saints, it is superfluous my writing to you.
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For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
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It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
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For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - For. This word shows that he is continuing the same subject, and therefore excludes the supposition that this chapter is a separate letter or fragment. No doubt, however, the express mention of the collection after he has been practically writing about it through the whole of the last chapter looks as if he had been interrupted, or had left off dictating at the end of the last verse. Such breaks must often and necessarily have occurred in the dictation of the Epistles, and doubtless help to account for some of their phenomena. Perhaps, on reperusing the last paragraphs before resuming the subject he observed that, after all, he had not directly mentioned the contribution, and therefore explains that he thought it superfluous to do so. To the saints. The poor Christians of Jerusalem (2 Corinthians 8:4). Superfluous. Because the subject had been already fully brought to their notice by himself and by Titus.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersIX.(1) For as touching . . .--The division of chapters in the English version, unfortunately, gives the impression of the introduction of a new subject. In reality there is no new topic, and all flows on with unbroken continuity. This is part of the appeal to their self-respect begun in 2Corinthians 8:23-24. "You will pardon," he practically says, "my words of counsel as to the necessity of prompt action; as to the general duty of that ministration to the saints you have shown that you need no instruction."
