2 Corinthians 8:13

For this task is not in order that others may be relieved and you may be burdened. Instead, there should be fairness.

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For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

In Context

12For if you are eager to do this deed, it is a good and acceptable thing. It must be based on what a person has, not on what he does not have.

14Your abundance at the present time will supply what they need. This is also so that their abundance may supply your need, and so that there may be fairness.

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Cross References

Acts 4:34There was no person among them who lacked anything, for all who owned title to lands or houses sold them and brought the money of the things that were sold

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:8-16

Charity Urged. ( a. d. 57.) 7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient… Read the whole commentary →

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