岂不知在场上赛跑的都跑，但得奖赏的只有一人。你们也当这样跑，好叫你们得着奖赏。
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
所以我奔跑，不像无定向的。我斗拳，不像打空气的。
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
论到供给圣徒的事，我不必写信给你们。
For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
因为我知道你们乐意的心，常对马其顿人夸奖你们，说亚该亚人豫备好了，已经有一年了。并且你们的热心激动了许多人。
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
万一有马其顿人与我同去，见你们没有豫备，就叫我们所确信的，反成了羞愧。你们羞愧，更不用说了。
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
因此我想不得不求那几位弟兄，先到你们那里去，把从前所应许的捐赀，豫备妥当，就显出你们所捐的，是出于乐意，不是出于勉强。
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
少种的少收，多种的多收。这话是真的。
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
如经上所记，他施舍钱财，周济贫穷。他的仁义存到永远。
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
那赐种给撒种的，赐粮给人吃的，必多多加给你们种地的种子，又增添你们仁义的果子。
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
原来前约有礼拜的条例，和属世界的圣幕。
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.