2 Corinthians 9:5-12 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of blessing, and not as of covetousness.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go forward to you, and make up beforehand your blessing, it having been promised that this would be ready, thus as a matter of blessing, and not as of covetousness. ⁶ But I say this, He who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. ⁷ Each one, as he purposes in his heart, let him give; not of grief, or of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything, always having all self-sufficiency, you may abound to every good work; ⁹ As it is written, "He scattered; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever." ¹⁰ Now He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for eating, may He supply and multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness ¹¹ you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which works out thanksgiving to God through us. ¹² For the ministry of this service not only supplies the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,