2 Corinthians 8:13

For it is not, that others may have easement, and you pressure;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12For if there is a willingness, a person is accepted according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.

14but that ye may be on equality at the present time; and that your abundance may be a supply to their want; that their abundance likewise may be a supply to your want; that there may be equality.

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Cross References

Acts 4:34And no one among them was destitute; for those who possessed lands or houses, sold, and brought the price of what was 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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