¹⁷ For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.

⁶ So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.

⁸ I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

¹⁰ And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.

²² But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.