2 Corinthians 8:3,4

2 Corinthians 8:3. For according to their power, yea, and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord.

2 Corinthians 8:4. beseeching us with much entreaty. The apostle would hardly let them give what they offered, as being too much in their circumstances, but they insisted: in the matter of this grace, [1] and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints that we would not deny them the privilege of having their own share in this good work.

[1] The received reading here is most certainly wrong, Beza, from whom it was no doubt adopted by our translators, admits that he took it from the Greek Scholia, the Complutensian, Polyglot, and two Latin MSS. It is absent from all ancient MSS., is found in scarcely any of the Cursives, and in no ancient version save the Gothic.