because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing through many (pollōn | πολλῶν | gen pl fem) thanksgivings to God.

for I know your readiness to help, about which I keep boasting to the Macedonians, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them (pleionas | πλείονας | acc pl masc comparative).

And we are sending along with them our brother whom we have often tested in many (pollois | πολλοῖς | dat pl neut) matters and found to be eager, and now he is all (poly | πολύ | adverb) the more eager because of his great (pollē | πολλῇ | dat sg fem) confidence in you.

As it is written, “The one who gathered much (poly | πολύ | acc sg neut) did not have a surplus, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

begging us with great (pollēs | πολλῆς | gen sg fem) insistence for the privilege of joining in this ministry to the saints.

how that in a severe (pollē | πολλῇ | dat sg fem) test of affliction, the fullness of their joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the richness of their generosity.

I have great (pollē | πολλή | nom sg fem) confidence in you; I take great (pollē | πολλή | nom sg fem) pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our distress.

as sorrowing, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many (pollous | πολλούς | acc pl masc) rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Rather, as servants of God, we commend ourselves in every way: in great (pollē | πολλῇ | dat sg fem) endurance, in times of affliction, hardship, and distress;

For all these things are for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more (pleionōn | πλειόνων | gen pl masc comparative) people, it may increase thanksgiving to the glory of God.