Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
New American Standard Bible
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not
King James Version
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Holman Bible
Each person should do as he has decided in his heart—not reluctantly or out of necessity, for God loves
International Standard Version
Each of you must give what you have decided in your heart, not with regret or under compulsion, since God loves a cheerful giver.
A Conservative Version
Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
American Standard Version
Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Amplified
Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].
An Understandable Version
Each person should give what he has decided to in his heart, not grudgingly, nor out of a feeling that he has to, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Anderson New Testament
Let each one give, as he purposes in his heart; not with grief, nor from necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
Bible in Basic English
Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.
Common New Testament
Each one must give just as he has purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let every man give as he is disposed in his own mind, without any regret or reluctance: for God loves a cheerful benefactor.
Darby Translation
each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Godbey New Testament
As each one has predetermined in his heart; not of reluctance, or of constraint: for God loves the hilarious giver.
Goodspeed New Testament
Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.
John Wesley New Testament
Let every man do as he chuseth in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a chearful giver.
Julia Smith Translation
Each as he chooses in the heart; not of grief, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Each one [should give] as he has decided in his heart, not {reluctantly} or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Modern King James verseion
Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And let every man do according as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity. For God loveth a cheerful giver.
Moffatt New Testament
Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully.
Montgomery New Testament
But let each give according to the purpose of his heart; not grudgingly of under compulsion. It is a cheerful giver that God loves.
NET Bible
Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.
New Heart English Bible
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Noyes New Testament
Each one, as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Sawyer New Testament
Let each one contribute as he chooses in his heart, not with regret or from necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
The Emphasized Bible
Each one, according as he hath purposed in his heart, not sorrowfully, nor of necessity, - for, a cheerful giver, God, loveth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let every man, as he hath purposed in heart, give, not with reluctance or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Let every one give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves 'a cheerful giver.'
Webster
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or by constraint: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Weymouth New Testament
Let each contribute what he has decided upon in his own mind, and not do it reluctantly or under compulsion. "It is a cheerful giver that God loves."
Williams New Testament
Each must give what he has purposed in his heart to give, not sorrowfully or under compulsion, for it is the happy giver that God loves.
World English Bible
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Worrell New Testament
Let each one do as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Worsley New Testament
Let every one give as he chuses in his own heart; not with reluctance, or constraint: for God loveth a chearful giver.
Youngs Literal Translation
each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,
Themes
Alms » Commandments and practices concerning
Bearing fruit » Those that sow bountifully
Bearing fruit » Those that sow sparingly
Benevolence » Examples of systematic » Cheerfully
Charity » Those that are charitable
Giving » Scriptural rules for » Cheerfully
Giving » Systematic » Cheerfully
Liberality » Instances of » Christians » In corinth
God, Love Of » Manifested towards » The cheerful giver
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God Loves A Cheerful Giver
6 But this I say, He who sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully. 7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
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Cross References
Exodus 25:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that gives it willingly with his heart you shall take my offering.
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.
Romans 12:8
Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly unto you.
Acts 20:35
I have showed you all things, how that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Exodus 35:5
Take from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and bronze,
Deuteronomy 15:7-11
If there be among you a poor man of one of your brethren within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother:
Deuteronomy 15:14
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give unto him.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made rich: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.
Proverbs 22:9
He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Proverbs 23:6-8
Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies:
Isaiah 32:5
The foolish person shall be no more called noble, nor the miser said to be bountiful.
Isaiah 32:8
But the noble plans noble things; and by noble things shall he stand.
James 5:9
Murmur not one against another, brethren, lest you be judged: behold, the judge stands before the door.
1 Peter 4:9
Practice hospitality one to another without grudging.