2 Corinthians 8:1-9

Generosity and Grace

Now brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been ^agiven in the churches of ^bMacedonia, 2 that in a great testing by affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the ^arichness of their ¹generosity. 3 For I testify that ^aaccording to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord, 4 begging us with much urging for the ^agrace ¹of sharing in the ^bministry to the saints, 5 and this, not as we had ¹expected, but they first ^agave themselves to the Lord and to us by ^bthe will of God. 6 So we ^aencouraged ^bTitus that as he had previously ^cmade a beginning, so he would also complete in you ^dthis gracious work as well.
7 But just as you ^aabound ^bin everything, in faith and word and knowledge and in all earnestness and in ¹the love we inspired in you, see that you ^aabound in this gracious work also. 8 I ^aam not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also. 9 For you know ^athe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ^bthough being rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 8:15

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15 As it is written, “^aHe who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”