For about the ministration of the saints it is superfluous for me to write to you.
For I know your readiness unto which I boast of you to Macedonians that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and your zeal stimulated the many.
Yet I sent the brethren in order that our boasting of you may not be made vain in this respect, that (as I said) ye may be prepared;
lest haply, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we may be ashamed, that we say not ye, in this confidence.
I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren that they would go before unto you and complete beforehand your blessing promised before, that it be ready thus as blessing, not as covetousness.
But this [I say], he that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth in blessings shall reap also in blessings;
each as he hath purposed in his heart, not of sorrow or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make every grace abound unto you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in every [thing], may abound unto every good work;
as it is written, He scattered, he gave to the poor: his righteousness remaineth forever.
But he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for eating will supply and multiply your sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality which worketh out through us thanksgiving to God.
Because the ministration of the service is not only filling up the wants of the saints, but also abounding through many thanksgivings to God;
through the proof of this service glorifying God for the subjection of your confession unto the gospel of Christ and liberality of fellowship toward them and toward all;
and in their supplication for you, while longing for you, on account of the surpassing grace of God [bestowed] on you.
Thanks to God for his unspeakable gift.