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2 Corinthians 8:13
2 Corinthians 8:13 is verse 13 of 2 Corinthians chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
King James Version
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
World English Bible
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
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2 Corinthians 8:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
12 For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
13 It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
14 At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. Then there will be equality.
15 As it is written: “He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 4:34There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,
Romans 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
Romans 15:27They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.