12. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according as a man hath, not according as he hath not.
13. For I say not this, that others may be eased, and ye distressed:
14. but by equality; your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:
15. as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.
16. But thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.