10. And in this I give an opinion: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago,
11. and now also complete the work, that as there was a readiness in desiring it, so there also should be a completion out of what you have.
12. For if the readiness is present, it is well received according to what one has, not according to what he does not have –
13. not, however, that others should be eased and you hard pressed,
14. but by fair sharing, that now at this time your plenty for their need, so that their plenty might also be for your need – that there might be fair sharing.
15. As it has been written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had not less.”
16. But thanks be to Elohim who puts the same eagerness for you into the heart of Titus.
17. Because he received the appeal, indeed, but being more eager, he went to you of his own accord.
18. And we sent with him the brother whose praise is in the Good News through all the assemblies,
19. and not only so, but who was also chosen by the assemblies to travel with us with this gift that is administered by us to the esteem of the Master Himself, and your ready mind,