2 Corinthians 8:1-15 - Generosity In Giving

¹ Moreover we make known unto you, brethren, the favour of God which hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, - ² That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality; ³ That, according to power, I bear witness, and beyond power, of their own accord, they acted , - ⁴ With much exhortation, entreating of us the favour and the fellowship of the ministry which was for the saints; - ⁵ And, not merely as we hoped, but, themselves, gave they, first, unto the Lord and unto us through God's will, ⁶ To the end we should exhort Titus, in order that, according as he before made a beginning, so, he should also complete unto you this favour also. ⁷ But, just as, in everything, ye superabound, - in faith, and discourse, and knowledge, and all earnestness, and in the love among you which proceedeth from us, in order that, in this favour also, ye would superabound.

⁸ Not by way of injunction, do I speak, but through, others', earnestness, and, the genuineness of your own love, putting to the test. ⁹ For ye are taking knowledge of the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ, - how that, for your sakes, he became destitute - although he was, rich, in order that, ye, by his destitution, might be enriched. ¹⁰ And, a judgment, herein, do I give, - for, this, unto you, is profitable, - who, indeed, not only of the doing, but of the desiring, made for yourselves a beginning a year ago; - ¹¹ Howbeit, now, the doing also, complete ye, in order that, even according to the forwardness of the desiring, so, may be the completing - out of what ye have. ¹² For, if the forwardness is set forth, according to what one may have, he is well approved, not according to what one hath not. ¹³ For, not that unto others should be relief, and unto you distress do I speak , but, by equality, in the present season, your surplus for their deficiency, - ¹⁴ In order that their surplus may come to be for your deficiency: that there may come about an equality: - ¹⁵ Even as it is written - He that gathered the much, had not more than enough, and, he that gathered the little, had not less,