2 Corinthians 9:1-7 ▼

1 For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal stirred up most of them.

3 But I have sent the brothers, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

4 lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours.

5 So I regarded it necessary to encourage the brothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised blessing, so that the same would be ready as a blessing and not as a begrudging obligation.

6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows with blessing will also reap with blessing.

7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.