¶ For as touching¹ the ministering² to the saints, it is³ superfluous for me to write to you:

For I know the forwardness⁴ of your mind, for which I boast⁵ of you to them of Macedonia, that⁶ Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked⁷ very many.

Yet have⁸ I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may⁹ be ready:

Lest haply if they¹⁰ of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed¹¹ in this same confident boasting.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make¹² up beforehand your bounty¹³, whereof ye had notice before¹⁴, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.

¶ But this I say,¹⁵ He which soweth sparingly¹⁶ shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not¹⁷ grudgingly, or of necessity: for God¹⁸ loveth a cheerful giver.

And God¹⁹ is able to make all grace²⁰ abound toward you; that ye, always²¹ having all sufficiency in all things, may²² abound to every good work:

(As it is written, He hath dispersed²³ abroad; he hath given to the poor: his²⁴ righteousness remaineth for ever.

¶ Now he²⁵ that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply²⁶ your seed sown, and increase²⁷ the fruits of your righteousness;)

Being enriched²⁸ in every thing to all bountifulness²⁹, which³⁰ causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

For the administration³¹ of this service not only³² supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they³³ glorify God for your professed³⁴ subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for³⁵ your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

And by³⁶ their prayer for you, which long³⁷ after you for the exceeding³⁸ grace of God in you.

Thanks be³⁹ unto God for his unspeakable⁴⁰ gift.