2nd Corinthians Chapter 9 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 9:8

And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 9:8

But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work:
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 9:8


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 9:8

and God `is' able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,
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2nd Corinthians 9 : 8 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - To make all grace abound toward you. God can give you such abundant gifts that you will not feel the loss of a generous contribution to his service. Sufficiency. The word autarkeia (1 Timothy 6:6) in the Stoic philosophy was used for the perfect independence which enabled a man to stand alone. The term is here softened and Christianized to express the contentment which arises from the full supply of all our needs by God. The affirmations of the original are as emphatic as language can make them. They express that the man who places all his trust upon God will be "perfect and entire, lacking nothing" (Philippians 4:11, 19).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) God is able to make all grace abound toward you.--The word "grace" must be taken with somewhat of the same latitude as in 2Corinthians 8:6-7; 2Corinthians 8:19, including every form of bounty, as well as "grace," in its restricted theological sense: the means of giving, as well as cheerfulness in the act. He will bless the increase of those who give cheerfully, that they may have, not indeed the superfluity which ministers to selfish luxury, but the sufficiency with which all true disciples ought to be content. In the word "sufficiency," which occurs only here and in 1Timothy 6:6 ("godliness with contentment"), we have another instance of St. Paul's accurate use of the terminology of Greek ethical writers. To be independent, self-sufficing, was with them the crown of the perfect life; and Aristotle vindicates that quality for happiness as he defines it, as consisting in the activity of the intellect, and thus distinguished from wealth and pleasure, and the other accidents of life which men constantly mistook for it (Eth. Nicom. x., c. 7). At the time when St. Paul wrote it was constantly on the lips of Stoics. (Comp. the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, iii. c. 11.)