2 Corinthians 9:5–13

⁵Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

⁶And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; ⁷each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹(according as it hath been written, ‘He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,’) ¹⁰and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God, ¹²because the ministration of this service not only is supplying the wants of the saints, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God, ¹³through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,