16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
2 Corinthians 8 Intro: Liberality enjoined.
1 Moreover, brethren, we would have you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
2 How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5 And this they did, not as we required, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
6 Insomuch that we desired Titus that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
7 Therefore, as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
9 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.
