2 Corinthians 8:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

¹³ For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

Common English Bible

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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 as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance which it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”

Acts 4:34

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not.

2 Corinthians 8:14

but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality.