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:
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,
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;