World English Bible
2 Corinthians 8:13
“For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,”
Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 8
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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.
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For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
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For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
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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.
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As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.
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Paul’s defense of his ministry and encouragement in hardship.
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