2 Corinthians 8:7-17

7 Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech, knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you, implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving also flourishes in you.
8 I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
9 For you know the condescending goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how for your sakes He became poor, though He was rich, in order that you through His poverty might grow rich.
10 But in this matter I give you an opinion; for my doing this helps forward your own intentions, seeing that not only have you begun operations, but a year ago you already had the desire to do so.
11 And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be the accomplishment in proportion to your means.
12 For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.
13 I do not urge you to give in order that others may have relief while you are unduly pressed,
14 but that, by equalization of burdens, your superfluity having in the present emergency supplied their deficiency, their superfluity may in turn be a supply for your deficiency later on, so that there may be equalization of burdens.
15 Even as it is written, "He who gathered much had not too much, and he who gathered little had not too little."
16 But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you;
17 for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own free will.
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