9. Your wealth, you well know, all that you really have, that is to say, is yours because Christ Jesus abandoned the world;
10. the way he gave up all has brought you great riches, and now is the time to show how genuine is the love which has been opened to you.
15. “He that gathered little had no lack, and he that gathered much had nothing over” (Ex. xvi. 18).
20. I praise God for this arrangement which met my own wishes in the matter.
21. I seek “favour and a good understanding in the sight of God and man” (Prov. iii. 4), and I am glad the churches have elected so well-known a man to help me, for the outsiders are sure to criticise my administration of this bounty.
22. This man then and Titus I am sending to receive the collection, and along with them a third brother who has so often served me with the utmost willingness, and is now more than ever eager to do so because of the confidence he has in you. Thus then I recommend this mission of three who are coming to you to receive the fund.
23. As regards Titus, he is my own special representative, and your own fellow-worker; the other two are commissioned by the churches, they show forth the Christ in their great works.