So, we are also eager to please God very much, whether we are at home [in our body] or away from it.

but also by the fact that he had felt comforted on your account, and by the report which he brought of your eager affection, of your grief, and of your jealousy on my behalf, so that I rejoiced more than ever.

See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

I am not saying this [to you] as a command, but by telling you how eager others are [to help], to find out how genuine your love is also.

So, now finish doing it also, so that just as you were eager to want to, you will also [be eager to] finish it, according to your ability.

For if the eagerness [to give] is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, he is coming to you of his own accord.

and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in regard to this gracious offering which we are administering for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our eagerness [as believers to help one another].

And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.

For I know how eager you [already] are, and I have boasted about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia [Note: This was the southernmost province of Greece, where Corinth was located] has been prepared [to give] since last year. And your enthusiasm has stirred up most of them [to give also].