Epistle
2 Cor 8.1-5
Read in contextBrethren, I
1Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;
4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.