King James Version (KJV)

2 Corinthians 8:3

“For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;”

Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 8

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;

Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

Paul’s defense of his ministry and encouragement in hardship.