¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

¹² For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

¹³ “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

¹⁴ “‘If you sell anything to your neighbour, or buy from your neighbour, you shall not wrong one another.

¹⁵ According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

¹⁶ According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

¹⁷ You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

¹⁸ “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

¹⁹ The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

²⁰ If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”

²¹ then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

²² You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

²³ “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

²⁴ In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

⁴ begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

⁵ This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

⁶ So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

⁷ But as you abound in everything—in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us—see that you also abound in this grace.

⁸ I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

¹⁰ I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

¹¹ But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.

¹² For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

¹³ For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

¹⁴ but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.

¹⁵ As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”