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.

¹⁸ I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?

⁴ Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:

¹⁶ But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

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

¹⁹ And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:

⁵ So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

¹⁸ I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

¹⁰ Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;