13For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
13For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
10 And I give my opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.
11 But now also complete the doing of it; so that as there was the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.
12 For if the readiness be there, a man is accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.
13 For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
14 but on the principle of equality; in the present time your abundance for their lack, that their abundance may be for your lack, so that there should be equality.
15 According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.
8:13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
8:13Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.
8:13For I mean not that others should be eased, and you burthened, but by an equality.
8:13For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;
8:13For I say not this, that others may be eased, and ye distressed:
8:13For I mean not that other men should be eased, and you burdened:
8:13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
8:13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, do I speak,
8:13For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened: