2 CORINTHIANS 9:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.”
You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God — *generosity* (*haplotēs*, literally simplicity/sincerity of heart) generates *thanksgiving* (*eucharistía*). The Corinthians' *periousía*, abundance/enrichment, overflows in glad recognition of God's prior grace. Charity becomes doxology.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 9:11
“That being enriched in every thing to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.” Not that you may consume it upon things not fitting, but upon such as bring much thanksgiving to God. For God made us to have the disposal of great things, and reserving to Himself that which is less yielded to us that which is greater. For corporeal nourishment is at His sole disposal, but mental He permitted to us; for we have it at our own disposal whether the crops we have…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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