6. So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
7. But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
8. I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also 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 become rich.
10. I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
11. But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
12. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
13. For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
14. but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
15. As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
16. But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
17. For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
18. We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.