12. If you want to give, your gift will be accepted. Your gift will be judged by what you have, not by what you do not have.
13. We do not want you to have troubles while other people are at ease. We want everything to be equal.
14. At this time you have plenty. What you have can help others who are in need. Then later, when they have plenty, they can help you when you are in need. Then all will be equal.
15. As it is written in the Scriptures, “The person who gathered more did not have too much. The person who gathered less did not have too little.”
16. I thank God because he gave Titus the same love for you that I have.
17. Titus accepted what we asked him to do. He wanted very much to go to you. This was his own idea.