1. But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;
2. that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.
3. For according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they were willing of their own accord,
4. begging of us with much entreaty to give effect to the grace and fellowship of the service which was to be rendered to the saints.
5. And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.
6. So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;
7. but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.