For unto their power, I bear them witness, and above their power, they were voluntarily ready [to give]:

For if there is first a ready mind, a man is acceptable according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.

For he received in deed the exhortation, but being more diligent, of his own ready mind he went unto you.

and not only so, but who was chosen by the churches as my fellow-traveller with this charity, ministered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [to shew] your ready mind.

have thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and prepare before your promised bounty, that it may be ready as a matter of bounty, and not as [extorted] of covetousness.

and holding ourselves ready to avenge every act of disobedience, when your obedience is fully proved.

Lo! I hold myself ready the third time to come unto you, and I will not burden you; for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up treasure for their parents, but the parents for the children.