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¹ Moreover we make known unto you, brethren, the favour of God which hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, - ² That, in a great testing of tribulation, the superabounding of their joy and their deep destitution, superabounded unto the riches of their liberality;³ That, according to power, I bear witness, and beyond power, of their own accord, they acted , - ⁴ With much exhortation, entreating of us the favour and the fellowship of the ministry which was for the saints; - ⁵ And, not merely as we hoped, but, themselves, gave they, first, unto the Lord and unto us through God's will,⁶ To the end we should exhort Titus, in order that, according as he before made a beginning, so, he should also complete unto you this favour also.

⁷ But, just as, in everything, ye superabound, - in faith, and discourse, and knowledge, and all earnestness, and in the love among you which proceedeth from us, in order that, in this favour also, ye would superabound. ⁸ Not by way of injunction, do I speak, but through, others', earnestness, and, the genuineness of your own love, putting to the test.⁹ For ye are taking knowledge of the favour of our Lord Jesus Christ, - how that, for your sakes, he became destitute - although he was, rich, in order that, ye, by his destitution, might be enriched.¹⁰ And, a judgment, herein, do I give, - for, this, unto you, is profitable, - who, indeed, not only of the doing, but of the desiring, made for yourselves a beginning a year ago; - ¹¹ Howbeit, now, the doing also, complete ye, in order that, even according to the forwardness of the desiring, so, may be the completing - out of what ye have.¹² For, if the forwardness is set forth, according to what one may have, he is well approved, not according to what one hath not.¹³ For, not that unto others should be relief, and unto you distress do I speak , but, by equality, in the present season, your surplus for their deficiency, - ¹⁴ In order that their surplus may come to be for your deficiency: that there may come about an equality: - ¹⁵ Even as it is written - He that gathered the much, had not more than enough, and, he that gathered the little, had not less,

¹⁶ Thanks, however, unto God! - who is putting the same earnestness in your behalf in the heart of Titus,¹⁷ In that, though, indeed, the exhortation, he welcomed; yet already being, greatly in earnest, of his own accord, hath he gone forth unto you.¹⁸ Howbeit, we also set forward, with him, the brother, whose praise in the Glad Tidings, hath gone through all the assemblies: - ¹⁹ Not only so, however, but he hath also been appointed by the assemblies, as a fellow-traveler with us in this favour, which is being ministered by us with a view to the Lord's glory and our earnest desire: - ²⁰ Arranging this - lest anyone, upon us, should cast blame, in this munificence which is being ministered by us;²¹ For we provide things honourable, not only before the Lord, but also before men.²² Moreover we have set forward, with them, our brother whom we have proved, in many things, ofttimes, earnest, - but, now, much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath towards you.²³ Whether as regardeth Titus, he is a partner of mine, and, towards you, a fellow-worker. or our brethren, apostles of assemblies, and Christ's glory.²⁴ The proof of your love, therefore, and of our boasting in your behalf, shew ye, unto them, in the face of the assemblies.