7. Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
8. I speak not as commanding, but by occasion of the diligence of others and to prove the sincerity of your charity.
9. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be enriched.
10. And in this I give my advice, for this is expedient for you, who began not only to do, but also to be diligent a year ago.
11. Now therefore finish the doing of it that as there was a readiness to will, so there may also be a performance out of that which ye have.
12. For if there is first a willing desire, it is accepted according to what a person has and not according to what they do not have.
13. For I mean not that others be eased and ye burdened,
14. but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want that their abundance also may be a supply for your want, that there may be equality:
15. As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no lack.
16. But thanks be to God, who put the same diligence into the heart of Titus for you.
17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, of his own accord he went unto you.
18. And we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones},