⁴ Great is my ^(A)confidence ^[a]in you; great is my ^(B)boasting on your behalf. I am filled with ^(C)comfort; I am overflowing with ^(D)joy in all our affliction.

²⁴ Therefore ^[a]openly before the churches, ^[b]show them the proof of your love and of our ^(A)reason for boasting about you.

² for I know your readiness, of which I ^(A)boast about you to the ^(B)Macedonians, namely, that ^(C)Achaia has been prepared since ^(D)last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them. ³ But I have sent the brethren, in order that our ^(E)boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, ^(F)as I was saying, you may be prepared; ⁴ otherwise if any ^(G)Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence. ⁵ So I thought it necessary to urge the ^(H)brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised ^[a](I)bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a ^[b](J)bountiful gift and not ^[c](K)affected by covetousness.

⁶ Now this I say, ^(L)he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows ^[d]bountifully will also reap ^[e]bountifully. ⁷ Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not ^(M)grudgingly or under compulsion, for ^(N)God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And ^(O)God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed; ⁹ as it is written,

¹⁰ Now He who supplies ^(Q)seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and ^(R)increase the harvest of your righteousness; ¹¹ you will be ^(S)enriched in everything for all liberality, which through us is producing ^(T)thanksgiving to God. ¹² For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying ^(U)the needs of the ^[g]saints, but is also overflowing ^(V)through many thanksgivings to God. ¹³ Because of the proof given by this ^(W)ministry, they will ^(X)glorify God for your obedience to your ^(Y)confession of the ^(Z)gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your ^[h]contribution to them and to all, ¹⁴ while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you. ^15 (AA)Thanks be to God for His indescribable ^(AB)gift!

⁸ For even if ^(A)I boast somewhat ^[a]further about our ^(B)authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be put to shame,

²⁶ so that your ^(A)proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

⁴ therefore, we ourselves ^(A)speak proudly of you among ^(B)the churches of God for your ^[a]perseverance and faith ^(C)in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.