Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality. 008:015 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."{Exodus 16:8} 008:016 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. 008:017 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord. 008:018 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies. 008:019 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness. 008:020 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us. 008:021 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. 008:022 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you. 008:023 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ. 008:024 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf. 009:001 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, 009:002 for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them. 009:003 But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared, 009:004 so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting. 009:005 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. 009:006 Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 009:007 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. 009:008 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.