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4 They were very urgent in their concern for this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the holy ones.
5 This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
6 We exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
7 But as you have plenty of everything, in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love for us, see that you have plenty of this undeserved kindness also.
8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
10 I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
11 But now complete the doing. There was the eager will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he does not have.
13 I do not say this for the ease of others and for your affliction
14 but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:
15 as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.