8 I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.
10 And I give my opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.
11 But now also complete the doing of it; so that as there was the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.
12 For if the readiness be there, a man is accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.
13 For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
14 but on the principle of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.