3 Yet I have sent the brothers, lest our boasting of you might be in vain in this case, that, as I said, you may be ready;
4 and lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you) should be ashamed of this confident boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers to go ahead to you and arrange beforehand your bountiful gift you previously promised, that it might be prepared as a gift, not as a matter of greed.
6 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
7 Let every man give according to the purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
8 God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that you, always having enough of everything, may abound to every good work.
9 As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor;His righteousness remains forever.”