8. I speak not by commandment, but to prove by the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love.
9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
10. And in this I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to desire a year ago.
11. Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you have.
12. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.