1 Itis indeed unnecessary for me to write
to you concerning the service to the saints,

2 for I know your readiness, of which I
boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia,
that Achaia has been prepared for the
past year. Your zeal has stirred up very
many of them.

3 But I have sent the brothers so that our
boasting on your behalf may not be in vain
in this respect, that, just as I said, you may
be prepared,

4 lest by any means, if anyone from
Macedonia comes there with me and finds
you unprepared, we (to saynothing of you)
would be disappointed in this confident
boasting.

5 I thought it necessary therefore to
entreat the brothers that they would
go before to you and arrange ahead of time the
generous gift that you promised before,
that the same might be ready as a matter
of generosity, and not of greediness.

6 Remember this: he who sows sparingly
will also reap sparingly. He who sows
bountifully will also reap bountifully.

7 Let each man give according as he has
determined in his heart, not grudgingly or
under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace
abound to you, that you, always having all
sufficiency in everything, may abound to
every good work.