For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he[a] was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich. 10 And I am giving an opinion in this matter, because this is profitable for you who not only began previously, a year ago, to do something, but also to want to do it. 11 So now also complete the doing of it, in order that just as you have the eagerness to want to do it, thus also you may complete it from what you have.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as concessive