2 Corinthians 8:5-11 And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God. ⁶ So that we besought Titus, that as he began before, so also he would complete to us this grace also. ⁷ But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace. ⁸ I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love. ⁹ For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was in a state of beggary, being rich; that ye in his poverty might be rich. ¹⁰ And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year. ¹¹ And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.