2 Corinthians 9:1-5

God Loves a Cheerful Giver

For ^ait is superfluous for me to write to you about this ^bministry to the ¹saints; 2 for I know your readiness, of which I ^aboast about you to the ^bMacedonians, that ^cAchaia has been prepared since ^dlast year, and your zeal stirred up most of them. 3 But I have sent the brothers, in order that our ^aboasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, ^bas I was saying, you may be prepared; 4 lest if any ^aMacedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours. 5 So I regarded it necessary to encourage the ^abrothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised ^bblessing, so that the same would be ready as a ^cblessing and not as a ¹^dbegrudging obligation.