For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto him.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

And herein I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work: