14but 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.


In Context

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.

16 But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.

2 Corinthians 8:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:14But by an equality, [that] now at this time your abundance [may be a supply] for their want, that their abundance also may be [a supply] for your want: that there may be equality:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:14At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:14In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want, that there may be an equality,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:14but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:14but by equality; your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:14But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:14but 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:14but by equality, at the present time your abundance — for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:14But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: