2 Corinthians 8:11-19

11So now finish this, so that your eagerness in desiring it may be equaled by your completion of it, according to your ability.

12For if the eagerness [to give] is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

13For it is not [intended] that others be relieved [of their responsibility] and that you be burdened [unfairly], but that there be equality [in sharing the burden]—

14at this present time your surplus [over necessities] is going to supply their need, so that [at some other time] their surplus may be given to supply your need, that there may be equality;

15as it is written [in Scripture], “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not lack.”

16But thanks be to God who puts the same genuine concern for you in the heart of Titus.

17For Titus not only accepted our appeal, but was so very interested in you that he has gone to visit you of his own accord.

18And we have sent along with him the brother who is praised in the gospel [ministry] throughout all the churches;

19and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in regard to this gracious offering which we are administering for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our eagerness [as believers to help one another].