Thematic Bible: Liberality of the churches of

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia; that under a great trial of distress the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty increased the riches of their liberality; for according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, read more.
begging of us with much entreaty the favor of sharing in the ministration to the saints; and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God;