哥林多後書8:8-15

8:8 我說這話，不是吩咐你們，乃是藉著別人的熱心試驗你們愛心的實在。
8:9 你們知道我們主耶穌基督的恩典：他本來富足，卻為你們成了貧窮，叫你們因他的貧窮，可以成為富足。
8:10 我在這事上把我的意見告訴你們，是與你們有益；因為你們下手辦這事，而且起此心意，已經有一年了，
8:11 如今就當辦成這事。既有願做的心，也當照你們所有的去辦成。
8:12 因為人若有願做的心，必蒙悅納，乃是照他所有的，並不是照他所無的。

8:13 我原不是要別人輕省，你們受累，
8:14 乃要均平，就是要你們的富餘，現在可以補他們的不足，使他們的富餘，將來也可以補你們的不足，這就均平了。
8:15 如經上所記：多收的也沒有餘；少收的也沒有缺。

⁸ I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
¹⁰ And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. ¹¹ Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. ¹² For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.
¹³ Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. ¹⁴ At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, ¹⁵ as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

**************

    保羅在此說的奉獻目地和今日的奉獻目地有些不太相同，在當時教會的弟兄姊妹是互相分享財物，有點類似「共產」制度，凡物公用，把自己所有全獻上，彼此互相幫補。今日我們的奉獻是供教會組織使用，自己擁有私人財富，有點不太相同。

    雖然財產方式不同，但是精神類似，就是我們要彼此分享從上帝所得的，不要倚靠金錢，要倚靠上帝！也因此，看見窮乏的要主動幫助，對於教會的十分之一奉獻不可短缺，對於機構的奉獻也要積極，讓上帝慈善工作也能進行！因為我們一切都是從上帝領受的，我們願意「給」，上帝就會更加添！

   總之，我們在錢財的使用上，除了以自己的需求外，更要打上帝在世上運行的聖工當成首要的考慮，上帝就會多而又多的供應，使我們富足有餘！因為生命和錢財都是上帝在供應！