10 I’m giving you my opinion about this. It’s to your advantage to do this, since you not only started to do it last year but you wanted to do it too.
11 Now finish the job as well so that you finish it with as much enthusiasm as you started, given what you can afford.
12 A gift is appreciated because of what a person can afford, not because of what that person can’t afford, if it’s apparent that it’s done willingly.
13 It isn’t that we want others to have financial ease and you financial difficulties, but it’s a matter of equality.
14 At the present moment, your surplus can fill their deficit so that in the future their surplus can fill your deficit. In this way there is equality.
15 As it is written, The one who gathered more didn’t have too much, and the one who gathered less didn’t have too little.
16 But thank God, who put the same commitment that I have for you in Titus’ heart.