For I can testify that to the utmost of their power, and even beyond their power, they have of their own free will given help.

for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own free will.

Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;

Thanks be to God for his unspeakable free gift.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride and boasting on your behalf. I am filled [to the brim] with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in spite of all our trouble.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?