Help for Fellow Christians

2 Corinthians 9:4-8

However, if the people from Macedonia

should come with me and find out that you are not ready,

how ashamed we would be - not to speak of your shame -

for feeling so sure of you!

So I thought it was necessary to urge these brothers

to go to you ahead of me and get ready in advance the gift

you promised to make.

Then it will be ready when I arrive, and it will show that you give

because you want to, not because you have to.

Remember that the person who plants few seeds

will have a small crop;

the one who plants many seeds will have a large crop.

Each one should give, then, as he has decided,

not with regret or out of a sense of duty;

for God love the one who gives gladly.

And God is able to give you more than you need,

so that you will always have all you need for yourselves

and more than enough for every good cause.