2 Corinthians 8:3
“For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;”
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Related Verses
“I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”
“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.”
“And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.”
“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.”
“How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.”