“And [remember] this: he who is sowing sparingly, will also reap sparingly; and he who is sowing in blessings, will also reap in blessings;”— 2 Corinthians 9:6 (LSV)
3and I sent the brothers, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, you may be ready,
4lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we may be put to shame (that we do not say—you) in this same confidence of boasting.
5Therefore I thought [it] necessary to exhort the brothers, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.
6And [remember] this: he who is sowing sparingly, will also reap sparingly; and he who is sowing in blessings, will also reap in blessings;
7each one, according as he purposes in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver,
8and God [is] able to cause all grace to abound to you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound to every good work,
9according as it has been written: “He dispersed abroad, He gave to the poor, His righteousness remains throughout the age,”