5Necessary, therefore, I thought [it] to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.
6And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;
7each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,
8and God [is] able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,
9(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,`)
10and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
11in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,