2 Corinthians 8:10–18

¹⁰I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.↗

¹¹But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.↗

¹²For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.↗

¹³For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,↗

¹⁴but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.↗

¹⁵As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”↗

¹⁶But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.↗

¹⁷For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.↗

¹⁸We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.↗