4Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:
5And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
6So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
7And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.
8I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
9For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
10And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.
