Catholic Public Domain Version
"For when the will is prompted, it receives according to what that person has, not according to what that person does not have. "
— 2 Corinthians 8:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”
“For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according as a man hath, not according as he hath not. ”
“For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.”
“For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.”
“For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.”
“For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.”
“For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.”
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that through his poverty, you might become rich.
And about this, I give my counsel. For this is useful to those of you who, only a year earlier, had just begun to act, or even to be willing to act.
So, truly now, accomplish this in deed, so that, in the same manner as your willing mind is prompted, you may also act, out of that which you have.
For when the will is prompted, it receives according to what that person has, not according to what that person does not have.
And it is not that others should be relieved, while you are troubled, but that there should be an equality.
In this present time, let your abundance supply their need, so that their abundance may also supply your need, in order that there may be an equality, just as it was written:
“He with more did not have too much; and he with less did not have too little.”