12 For if the eagerness is present according to what one has[a], it is acceptable not according to what one does not have[b]. 13 For this is not that for others there may be relief, and for you difficult circumstances, but as a matter of equality. 14 At the present time your abundance will be for their need, in order that their abundance may also be for your need, so that there may be equality,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:12 Literally “to the degree that if he might have”
  2. 2 Corinthians 8:12 Literally “to the degree that he might not have”