The purpose of the chapter was to encourage the Corinthian church to gracefully and hence gratefully keep their promise of giving an offering for a suffering church. Because of gratefulness for God’s grace in Christ, believers are to give wilfully (vv. 1–5), worshipfully (vv. 6–11), and wonder-fully (vv. 12–15). What was true for them remains true for all Christians, in all places, at all times.