2 Corinthians 8:1-5

American Standard Version

8 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; ² how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their ^[a]liberality. ³ For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord, ⁴ beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints: ⁵ and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.