10. So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,
11. to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.
12. For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
13. For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.
14. At the present time, your abundance will meet their need, so that one day their abundance may also meet your need, and thus there may be equality,
15. as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”
16. But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,
17. because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, he is coming to you of his own accord.
18. And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel.