For I know the forwardness of yourmind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, thatAchaia was ready a year ago; and yourzealhathprovokedverymany.
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, thattheywould go beforeunto you, and make up beforehandyourbounty, whereof ye had noticebefore, that the samemight be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
Whiles by the experiment of thisministrationtheyglorify God for yourprofessedsubjectionunto the gospel of Christ, and for yourliberaldistributionuntothem, and unto all men;