5. This is why I thought it was necessary to encourage the brothers to go to you ahead of time and arrange in advance the generous gift you have already promised. I want it to be a real gift from you. I don’t want you to feel like you are being forced to give anything.
6. What I mean is this: the one who sows a small number of seeds will also reap a small crop, and the one who sows a generous amount of seeds will also reap a generous crop.
7. Everyone should give whatever they have decided in their heart. They shouldn’t give with hesitation or because of pressure. God loves a cheerful giver.
8. God has the power to provide you with more than enough of every kind of grace. That way, you will have everything you need always and in everything to provide more than enough for every kind of good work.
9. As it is written, He scattered everywhere; he gave to the needy; his righteousness remains forever.
10. The one who supplies seed for planting and bread for eating will supply and multiply your seed and will increase your crop, which is righteousness.
11. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous in every way. Such generosity produces thanksgiving to God through us.