2 Corinthians 8:1-7

21st Century King James Version

8 Moreover, brethren, we want you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

² how in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

³ For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing to give of themselves,

⁴ praying us with earnest entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of ministering to the saints.

⁵ And this they did, not as we had hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God,

⁶ insomuch that we urged Titus that, as he had begun, so he would finish in you the same grace also.

⁷ Therefore as ye abound in everything — in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us — see that ye abound in this grace also.