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¹ For concerning the ministring to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.² For I know your readiness, which I boast concerning you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.³ Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you on this head should be made vain, that, as I said, ye may be ready;⁴ Lest if any of the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) be ashamed of this confident boasting.⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary, to desire the brethren to go before to you, and compleat this your bounty, which had been spoken of before, that it may be ready as a bounty, and not as a matter of covetousness.

⁶ And this I say, He that soweth sparingly, shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully, shall reap also bountifully:⁷ Let every man do as he chuseth in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a chearful giver.⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that having always all sufficiency in all things, ye may abound to every good work:⁹ (As it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness remaineth for ever.¹⁰ And may he who supplieth seed to the sower, and bread for your food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:)¹¹ Being inriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which worketh by us thanksgiving to God.¹² For the administration of this service, doth not only supply the necessities of the saints, but likewise aboundeth by the thanksgivings of many to God:¹³ (Who, by experiment of this administration, glorify God for your avowed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal communication to them and to all men.)¹⁴ And by their prayer for you, who long after you, for the exceeding grace of God, which is in you.¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.