2 Corinthians 8:7-15

7But just as you 1abound 2in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the 3love we inspired in you, see that you 4abound in this gracious work also. 8I 5am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also. 9For you know 6the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that 7though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 10I 8give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin 9a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it. 11But now finish 10doing it also, so that just as there was the 11readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability. 12For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable 12according 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 13their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for 14your need, that there may be equality; 15as it is written, “15He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”