[2 Cor 9:1-15]

Second Corinthians eight and nine are both about giving - specifically, giving money.  Specifically specifically, giving money to Paul.  It must have been a delicate subject to write about.  I grew up being taught that Paul was basically just an early televangelist.  The people in those churches must have heard some grumbling... 'hey, isn't this the same guy who was having us arrested and killed?'.  It's easy to read these verses and see where 'prosperity theology' got started.  "Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully".  Et cetera.  A couple lines down, the reaping is expounded upon.  "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;"  What?  The reward for work well done is more work?  Of course it is, because we are still alive.  Go read God's last text message to Moses if you want to see if the Lord cuts us a break at any point while we're still breathing.
SPOILER ALERT: No.
The love of money is really just the worship of self.  'I want money.  So that I can be free to do what I want.  Which is desirable, because I don't like other people having influence or control over me.  Because the things I think and feel and want are the best.'  Right.  I am already a god in my own mind; I want money so that this self-worship may be realized, since it's harder to worship yourself as effectively as you might if there's still evidence around you that you're not all-powerful. 
Paul doesn't say any of that.  He says that God will grant us a what?... a "sufficiency".  In everything.  The Lord knows our physical needs and will meet them.  When these needs are exceeded, it is for a purpose!  An abundance for what? ... "for every good deed"!
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More money actually means more work, and more responsibility.  Paul calls it "seed to the sower".  That's a labor analogy.  Anyone who wants money so that they can take it easy is not worshiping the God of the bible, but themselves.  Anyone who wants money so that they can be free to do their own thing and not have people tell them what to do is worshiping the god of this world, the devil.

- Jux