4. requesting of us with much exhortation the favor and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints,
5. and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, by the will of God.
6. So we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun it, thus he would also complete for you this act of grace.
7. But just as you excel in everything—in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us that is in you—so may you excel in this grace also.
8. I am not saying this as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.
9. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich.
10. And I am giving an opinion in this matter, because this is profitable for you who not only began previously, a year ago, to do something, but also to want to do it.
11. So now also complete the doing of it, in order that just as you have the eagerness to want to do it, thus also you may complete it from what you have.