2 Corinthians 8:10
“And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.”
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Related Verses
“Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.”
“Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.”
“For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.”
“I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”
“Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;”