2 Corinthians 8:1-15 ▼

1 Now we make known to you?, brothers, the grace of God having been given in the churches of Macedonia,

2 that in much proof of tribulation, the abundance of their joy and of their deep poverty abounded into the riches of their generosity.

3 For I testify that according to their power and beyond their power, of their own accord,

4 with much entreaty they were imploring us for the grace and the fellowship of the service to the saints.

5 And not even as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

6 Accordingly, we exhorted Titus that just as he began before, so also he might complete to you? also this grace,

7 but just as you? abound in everything—in faith and word and knowledge and all earnestness and in the love from us in you?—that also you? may abound in this grace.

8 I do not speak as a command, but proving the genuineness of your? love through the earnestness of others also.

9 For you? know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, on account of you? He became poor, so that you? by that poverty might be enriched.

10 And I give a judgment in this matter, for this is profitable for you?, who not only began before to do, but also to will, from a year ago.

11 And now also complete the doing, so that just as there was the readiness to will, so also there may be to complete out of that which you have.

12 For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable as if he may have, not as he does not have.

13 For it is not that to others is relief and for you? tribulation, but of equality.

14 At the present time, your? abundance is for their need, so that their abundance also may be for your? need, so that there may be equality.

15 As it has been written: “The one who gathered much did not abound, and the one who gathered little did not lack.”