13. For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
14. but 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.
15. According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.
16. But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.
17. For he received indeed the entreaty, but, being full of zeal, he went of his own accord to you;