10. And about this, I give my counsel. For this is useful to those of you who, only a year earlier, had just begun to act, or even to be willing to act.
11. So, truly now, accomplish this in deed, so that, in the same manner as your willing mind is prompted, you may also act, out of that which you have.
12. For when the will is prompted, it receives according to what that person has, not according to what that person does not have.
13. And it is not that others should be relieved, while you are troubled, but that there should be an equality.
14. In this present time, let your abundance supply their need, so that their abundance may also supply your need, in order that there may be an equality, just as it was written:
15. "He with more did not have too much; and he with less did not have too little."
16. But thanks be to God, who has granted to the heart of Titus, this same solicitude for you.
17. For certainly, he accepted the exhortation. But since he was more solicitous, he went to you of his own free will.
18. And we have even sent with him a brother whose praise accompanies the Gospel throughout all the churches.
19. And not only that, but he was also chosen by the churches to be a companion for our sojourn in this grace, which is ministered by us with our determined will, to the glory of the Lord.
20. So let us avoid this, lest anyone disparage us over the abundance that is ministered by us.
21. For we provide for what is good, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men.
22. And we have also sent with them our brother, whom we have proven to be frequently solicitous in many matters. But now there is a greater solicitousness, which is greatly entrusted to you;
23. and whether it concerns Titus, who is a companion to me and a helper to you, or whether it concerns our brothers, the Apostles of the churches, it is to the glory of Christ.
24. Therefore, in the sight of the churches, show them the proof of your charity and of our glorying about you.