1 For A1 Thess 4:9it is superfluous for me to write to you about this B2 Cor 8:4ministry to the 1Or holy onessaints; 2 for I know your readiness, of which I A2 Cor 7:4boast about you to the BRom 15:26Macedonians, namely, that CActs 18:12Achaia has been prepared since D2 Cor 8:10last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them. 3 But I have sent the brethren, in order that our A2 Cor 7:4boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, B1 Cor 16:2as I was saying, you may be prepared; 4 otherwise if any ARom 15:26Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence. 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the A2 Cor 9:3brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised 1Lit blessingBGen 33:11; Judg 1:15; 2 Cor 9:6bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a 1Lit blessingCPhil 4:17bountiful gift and not 2Lit as covetousnessD2 Cor 12:17faffected by covetousness.

6 Now this I say, AProv 11:24f; 22:9; Gal 6:7, 9he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows 1Lit with blessingsbountifully will also reap 1Lit with blessingsbountifully. 7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not ADeut 15:10; 1 Chr 29:17; Rom 12:8; 2 Cor 8:12grudgingly or under compulsion, for BEx 25:2God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And AEph 3:20God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; 9 as it is written,