2 Corinthians 8:13

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11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.

12 For ^aif there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;

14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality.

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

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16 But thanks be to God who¹ puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

17 For he not only accepted the exhortation, but being more diligent, he went to you of his own accord.

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2 Corinthians 8:13

For I mean not that other men be eased ... - I do not intend that others should be eased in order to relieve you. Literally, "Not that there should be rest ( ̓́ anesis , a letting loose; remission, relaxation) to others, but affliction ( ́ thlipsis ) to you." Probably the Corinthians were able to contribute more than many other churches, certainly more than the churches of Macedonia II Corinthians 8:2, and Paul therefore presses upon them the duty of giving according to their means, yet he by no means intended that the entire burden should come on them.

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