NASB
"For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality--"
— 2 Corinthians 8:13, NASB
“For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:”
“For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed; ”
“For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,”
“For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.”
“For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but by an equality.”
“And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:”
“For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:”
I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.
But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.
For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality--
at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;
as it is written, "HE WHO gathered MUCH DID NOT HAVE TOO MUCH, AND HE WHO gathered LITTLE HAD NO LACK."
But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.