But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.

Thanks be to God who has inspired Titus with an interest in you equal to my own;

he has indeed responded to my request, but he is off to you by his own choice, so keen is his interest in you.

Along with them I am also sending our brother: I have had ample proof of his keen interest on many occasions, and it is specially keen on this occasion, as he has absolute confidence in you.