but by equality: your abundance {\i being a supply} at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become {\i a supply} for your want; that there may be equality:
For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;
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,