I am not saying this to make it easy for others [to give] and difficult for you people,
And no one lacked anything, for all who owned property or houses sold [some of] them and brought the money
For if the eagerness is there, [then] whatever a person has [to give] is acceptable, and not what he does not have.
but that there will be equality [i.e., in everyone’s giving]. Your abundance can now supply their need, so that their abundance can [later] supply your need. [That way] there can be equality,