2 Corinthians 9:1-5
God Loves a Cheerful Giver
9For ait is superfluous for me to write to you about this bministry to the 1saints; 2for I know your readiness, of which I aboast about you to the bMacedonians, that cAchaia has been prepared since dlast year, and your zeal stirred up most of them. 3But I have sent the brothers, in order that our aboasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, bas I was saying, you may be prepared; 4lest if any aMacedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours. 5So I regarded it necessary to encourage the abrothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bblessing, so that the same would be ready as a cblessing and not as a 1,dbegrudging obligation.