9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
10 And in this I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11 Now therefore finish the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.
13 For I mean not that other men should be eased, and you burdened:
14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no want.