2 Corinthians 12:18

“I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes.

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother. But saying farewell to them, I went on to Macedonia.

So we encouraged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

For he not only accepted our plea, but being himself very earnest, he has gone out to you of his own accord.

And we have sent along with him the brother whose praise in the things of the gospel is throughout all the churches.

So I regarded it necessary to encourage the brothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised blessing, so that the same would be ready as a blessing and not as a begrudging obligation.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up to God and to His throne.