Coverdale(i)
1 I do you to wit (brethren) the grace of God, which is geue in the congregacions of Macedonia.
2 For their reioysinge was most abundaunt, whan they were tryed by moch trouble: & though they were exceadinge poore, yet haue they geue exceadinge richely, and that in synglenesse.
3 For to their power (I beare recorde) yee and beyonde their power, they were wyllinge of their awne acorde,
4 and prayed vs with greate instauce, that we wolde receaue their benefite and fellishippe of the hadreachinge that is done for the sayntes:
5 And not as we loked for, but gaue ouer them selues first to the LODRE, and afterwarde vnto vs by ye wyl of God,