Worrell(i)
5 and they did this not as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God;
6 so that we exhorted Titus that, as he began before, so also he would finish in you this same grace also.
7 But, as ye abound in everything—in faith, and speech, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us—see that ye abound in this grace also.
8 I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love.
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich.
10 And I give my judgment in this; for this is profitable for you, who, indeed, began before others, a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
11 And now complete the doing also; that, as there was a readiness to will, so also there may be the completion out of what ye have;