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.
5. And this they did, not as we expected, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
6. So that we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
7. Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.