2 Corinthians 9:15
New International Version
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

New Living Translation
Thank God for this gift too wonderful for words!

English Standard Version
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Berean Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

Berean Literal Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

King James Bible
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

New King James Version
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

New American Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

NASB 1995
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

NASB 1977
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

Legacy Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

Amplified Bible
Now thanks be to God for His indescribable gift [which is precious beyond words]!

Christian Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift.

American Standard Version
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Contemporary English Version
Thank God for his gift that is too wonderful for words!

English Revised Version
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I thank God for his gift that words cannot describe.

Good News Translation
Let us thank God for his priceless gift!

International Standard Version
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

Majority Standard Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

NET Bible
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

New Heart English Bible
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Weymouth New Testament
Thanks be to God for His unspeakably precious gift!

World English Bible
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

Berean Literal Bible
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

Young's Literal Translation
thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

Smith's Literal Translation
And grace to God for his indescribable gift.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Thanks be to God for his ineffable gift.

New American Bible
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

New Revised Standard Version
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Thanks be to God for his incomparable gift.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But thank God for his unspeakable gift.
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Godbey New Testament
Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.

Haweis New Testament
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift.

Mace New Testament
thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Weymouth New Testament
Thanks be to God for His unspeakably precious gift!

Worrell New Testament
Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift!

Worsley New Testament
Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God Loves a Cheerful Giver
14And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. 15Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

Cross References
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, / not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

John 4:10
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

1 John 4:9-10
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. / And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Romans 5:15-17
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! / Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. / For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Titus 3:4-7
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, / He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. / This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ...

1 Peter 1:3-4
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, / and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Galatians 1:3-5
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, / who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, / to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Matthew 7:11
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Luke 11:13
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”


Treasury of Scripture

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Thanks.

2 Corinthians 9:11
Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

1 Chronicles 16:8,35
Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people…

his.

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 49:6
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

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2 Corinthians 9
1. He yields the reason why he sent Titus and his brothers beforehand.
6. And he proceeds in stirring them up to a bountiful alms, as being but a kind of sowing of seed,
10. which shall return a great increase to them,
13. and occasion a great sacrifice of thanksgivings unto God.














Thanks be to God
This phrase begins with an expression of gratitude, which is a central theme in Christian theology. The Greek word for "thanks" is "χάρις" (charis), which is often translated as "grace" or "favor." This indicates that thanksgiving is not merely a polite response but a recognition of God's grace and favor bestowed upon humanity. In the historical context of the early church, gratitude was a vital response to the manifold blessings received through Christ, and it served as a unifying force among believers. The phrase also emphasizes the personal relationship between believers and God, acknowledging Him as the source of all good gifts.

for His indescribable gift!
The term "indescribable" comes from the Greek word "ἀνεκδιήγητος" (anekdiēgētos), which means beyond words or inexpressible. This suggests that the gift referred to is so profound and magnificent that human language cannot fully capture its essence. The "gift" is widely understood to be Jesus Christ Himself, whose life, death, and resurrection provide salvation and eternal life to believers. In the scriptural context, this gift is the culmination of God's redemptive plan, a theme that runs throughout the Bible. Historically, the early Christians would have understood this as the ultimate expression of God's love and grace, surpassing all previous covenants and promises. This phrase invites believers to reflect on the magnitude of God's generosity and to respond with heartfelt worship and thanksgiving.

(15) Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.--So the section on the collection for the saints comes to its close. We are left to conjecture to what gift the Apostle refers: whether to the love of God as manifested in Christ, or to the spirit of love poured into men's hearts. The use of the word in the Acts (Acts 2:38; Acts 8:20; Acts 10:45; Acts 11:17) is in favour of referring it to the gift of the Holy Ghost; that of Romans 5:15; Romans 5:17, to the gift of pardon or righteousness. Probably it did not enter into his thoughts to subject the jubilant utterance of praise to a minute analysis. . . . Verse 15. - Thanks be unto God. Nothing ever seems so much to disburden the full heart of St. Paul after deep emotion as an utterance of thanksgiving (Romans 7:25; Romans 9:5; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 15:57; Galatians 1:5; 1 Timothy 1:17). The thanksgiving here is like a great sigh of relief. The subject of it is perfectly general. It is not a mere "Amen" uttered, as it were, by St. Paul at the end of the thanksgivings of the saints at Jerusalem which he has been presupposing; but an offering of thanks to God for the issues of grace in general, all summed up in one act of "inestimable love" (John 3:16; Romans 6:23; Romans 11:33; Ephesians 3:19).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Thanks [be]
Χάρις (Charis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act.

to God
Θεῷ (Theō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

for
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

His
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

indescribable
ἀνεκδιηγήτῳ (anekdiēgētō)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 411: Indescribable, that cannot be thoroughly related, inexpressible. Not expounded in full, i.e. Indescribable.

gift!
δωρεᾷ (dōrea)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1431: A (free) gift, a gift (without repayment). From doron; a gratuity.


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