The eye is the lamp of the body: so, if your Eye is generous, the whole of your body will be illumined,

Can I not do as I please with what belongs to me? Have you a grudge because I am generous?'

That is why I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on in advance and get your promised contribution ready in good time. I want it to be forthcoming as a generous gift, not as money wrung out of you.

Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest.

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

tell them to be bountiful, rich in good works, open-handed and generous,