2 Corinthians 9:1-7

1For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

2because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

3But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

4For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.

5Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.

6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

7Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.