15. According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.
16. But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.
17. For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of zeal, he went of his own accord to you;
18. but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;
19. and not only so, but is also chosen by the assemblies as our fellow-traveller with this grace, ministered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and a witness of our readiness;