2 Corinthians 9

9 ¹About serving the Lord's people, I don't need to write you, ²for I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them. ³So I'm sending the brothers, that our boast about you not prove empty in this case—that you'd be ready, as I said. ⁴Otherwise, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to mention you—would be ashamed for such confidence. ⁵So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the generous gift you had promised, so that it would be ready as a willing gift, not as something grudgingly given.

⁶Remember this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. ⁷Each should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for our Father loves a cheerful giver. ⁸Our Father can make all grace overflow to you, so that always having all you need in everything, you overflow in every good work. ⁹As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever."

¹⁰He who supplies seed to the sower and bread to eat will supply and multiply your seed, and increase the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹You will be enriched in everything, for all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to our Father through us. ¹²This service you perform not only meets the needs of the Lord's people, but overflows in many acts of thanksgiving to our Father. ¹³Proved by this service, others will praise our Father for your submission in confessing the gospel of Christ, and for your generous sharing with them and everyone else. ¹⁴In their prayers for you, they will yearn for you, because of the surpassing grace our Father has given you. ¹⁵Thanks be to our Father for his indescribable gift!