13Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.


In Context

10 And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so.

11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means.

12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

13 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.

14 At 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,

15 as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little."

2nd Corinthians 8:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:13For I mean not that others should be eased, and you burthened, but by an equality.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:13For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:13For I say not this, that others may be eased, and ye distressed:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13For I mean not that other men should be eased, and you burdened:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, do I speak,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened: