2 Corinthians 9:5

Overview - 2 Corinthians 9
1	He yields the reason why, though he knew their forwardness, yet he sent Titus and his brethren beforehand.
6	And he proceeds in stirring them up to a bountiful alms, as being but a kind of sowing of seed,
10	which shall return a great increase to them,
13	and occasion a great sacrifice of thanksgivings unto God.

2 Corinthians 9:5  (King James Version)
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.