8:11. Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.
8:12. For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.
8:13. For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but by an equality.
8:14. In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an equality,
8:15. As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that had little had no want.
8:16. And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus.
8:17. For indeed he accepted the exhortation: but, being more careful, of his own will he went unto you.
8:18. We have sent also with him the brother whose praise is in the gospel through all the churches.
8:19. And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will:
8:20. Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us.