\subsection{II Corinthians 8}
\VS{1} So we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God given in the 
assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} of Macedonia, 
\VS{2} that in [a] great trial of affliction, the abundance of their 
joy, and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity. 
\VS{3} For according to power, I testify, and concerning [their] power: of their 
own accord, 
\VS{4} with much encouragement, requesting our grace and the 
fellowship of the service to the holy [ones], 
\VS{5} and not just as we hoped, but 
first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God, 
\VS{6} inasmuch as we encouraged Titus, in order that, just as he had begun, 
so also he should finish in you this same grace also. 
\VS{7} But as you 
abound in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all 
earnestness and in agape-love from us among you\footnote{``from us among 
you": \papyrus{46}B; ``you among us": \sinaiticus{}D\koine{} }, in order that you also abound 
in this same grace. 
\VS{8} I say this not according to command, but through 
the earnestness of others and proving the genuineness [of your] agape-love. 
\VS{9} For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he, being rich, became 
poor on account of us, in order that you in that poverty become rich. 
\VS{10} And I give [an] opinion in this, for this is useful to you, who have 
begun before from last year not only to do but also to will; 
\VS{11} so now 
complete the doing, so that as [is] the readiness to be willing, thus also the 
completing from what [you] have done. 
\VS{12} For if the readiness is present, 
[it is] accepted according to what [one] has, not [what one] has not. 
\VS{13} For not that rest 
[be] to others, [and] affliction to you, but from equality, 
\VS{14} [that] in the present 
opportune-time\fnKairos{} your abundance [be] to their need, so that equality come to pass, 
\VS{15} just as it is written:

\begin{verse}
The [one having] much had no excess, \\
And the [one having] little had no lack.
\end{verse}

\VS{16} But grace [be] to the God giving the same earnestness concerning you in 
the heart of Titus. 
\VS{17} For on the one hand he accepted the exhortation, 
but being more earnest on the other hand, of his own accord he came to you. 
\VS{18} So we co-sent with him the brother whose praise in the good-news 
[is] throughout all the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}. 
\VS{19} And not [this only], but also [he is the one] having been chosen 
by the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{} [to be] our traveling companion with this grace being 
served by us towards the glory of the same Lord and [to show] our readiness, 
\VS{20} avoiding this, [that] no one find fault with us in this abundance 
being served by us. 
\VS{21} For we consider the good [thing] not only before [the] Lord, but also before men. 
\VS{22} So we have sent our brother with them, whom we have proved in 
many [things] often [that he] is earnest, but now much more earnest in the great confidence which [I have] in you. 
\VS{23} Whether [any inquire] concerning Titus, [he is] my partner and co-worker 
to you; or whether [concerning] our brothers, [they are] apostles of the
assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, [the] glory of Christ. 
\VS{24} [You are] therefore showing the proof [of your] agape-love and our boast concerning you to them [and] before the face of the assemblies\fnEkklhsia{}.
