For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, ‘Achaia has been ready since last year’, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
On the first day of the week, each of you is to set something aside and save in keeping with how he is prospering, so that no collections will need to be made when I come.
Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counsellor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.