1. Moreover, brethren, we want 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 ability, I bear record, yea, and beyond their ability they were willing of themselves;
4. Begging us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.