2 Corinthians 8:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For I say not this, that others may be eased, and ye distressed:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it is not [intended] that other people be eased and relieved [of their responsibility] and you be burdened and suffer [unfairly],

American Standard Version (1901)

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

Common English Bible

It isn’t that we want others to have financial ease and you financial difficulties, but it’s a matter of equality.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And it is not that others should be relieved, while you are troubled, but that there should be an equality.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For I mean not that others should be eased, and you burthened, but by an equality.

2 Corinthians 8:13 Cross References

Numbers 35:8

And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

Acts 4:34

For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according as a man hath, not according as he hath not.

2 Corinthians 8:14

but by equality; your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality: