2 Corinthians 8:8-13

8I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

10And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago;

11but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.

12For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

13For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;