2 Corinthians 8:11-19

11But now also complete the doing of it; so that as [there was] the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.

12For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.

13For [it is] not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

14but [on the principle] of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.

15According as it is written, He who [gathered] much had no excess, and he who [gathered] little was nothing short.

16But thanks [be] to 1God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.

17For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of zeal, he went of his own accord to you;

18but we have sent with him the brother whose praise [is] in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

19and not only [so], but [is] also chosen by the assemblies as our fellow-traveller with this grace, ministered by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and [a witness of] our readiness;