2. I have told many of your own readiness to give. I have told the churches in Asia that Achaia has long been laying by for it, and for some time past your example has stimulated them.
3. Now I send the committee of three brethren whom I have mentioned to complete the matter.
4. You will see to it that what I have spoken about you has not been spoken in vain, that when they come, I may not be found to have boasted of you to no purpose, and that I, not to say yourselves, may have no reason to be ashamed.
5. I told them they would find you ready, and that there was no idea in your minds that this fund was a requisition, but that it stood for a blessing. These were the words with which I sped them on their way.
6. I will say but this, that to sow plentifully is to reap plentifully, and that a niggard spirit will never receive a blessing for that which was not given as a blessing.
7. “God loveth a cheerful giver” (Prov. xxii. 8). He can make you abound in everything that is good.
8. He can give you that self-reliance and competency within and without which will accomplish everything good.
9. “He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever” (Ps. cxii. 9).
10. It is He who supplies “the seed to the sower, and the bread to the eater” (Is. lv. 10).
14. and will pray for you, and long after you in the gospel of God, because of the divine manifestation in your midst.
15. God be praised for His gift which passes all utterance, all power of expression.