2 Corinthians 8:11-19

¹¹But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the willingness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability. ¹²For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. ¹³For this is not for the relief of others and for your hardship, but by way of equality— ¹⁴at this present time your abundance will serve as assistance for their need, so that their abundance also may serve as assistance for your need, so that there may be equality; ¹⁵as it is written: “The one who had gathered much did not have too much, and the one who had gathered little did not have too little.”

¹⁶But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness in your behalf in the heart of Titus. ¹⁷For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord. ¹⁸We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches; ¹⁹and not only that, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,