3 But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:
4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.
5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
6 But this 'I say,' He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 'Let' each man 'do' according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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