⁶ Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

¹⁸ I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? `walked we' not in the same steps?

⁴ beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

¹⁷ For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.

¹⁹ and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in `the matter of' this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and `to show' our readiness:

⁵ I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

¹⁸ But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things `that came' from you, and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

¹⁰ according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;