2 Corinthians 8:7–15

⁷But just as you ^aabound ^bin everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the ¹love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

⁸I ^aam not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

⁹For you know ^athe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ^bthough He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

¹⁰I ^agive my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin ^ba year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

¹¹But now finish ¹doing it also, so that just as there was the ^areadiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.

¹²For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable ^aaccording to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.

¹³For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality—

¹⁴at this present time your abundance being a supply for ^atheir need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

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