Paul challenges the Church at Corinth to keep their promise to take part in the offering they had promised the previous year to collect for the poor saints in Jerusalem…
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. ~ Psalm 100:1-3