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10 And I am giving an opinion in this matter, for this[a] is beneficial for you, who began-beforehand from last year not only the doing, but the wanting to do. 11 But now indeed complete the doing, so that just as was the eagerness of the wanting, so also may be the completing out of what you have.

A Gift Proportionate To Your Abundance Is Acceptable For Their Need

12 For if the eagerness is there, it [b] is acceptable to whatever degree a person may have, not to-the-degree he does not have. 13 For it is not in order that there may be rest[c] for others, affliction[d] for you, but out of equality[e] 14 at the present time your abundance[f] being for the need of those ones, in order that the abundance of those ones also may come-to-be for your need, so that there may be equality. 15 Just as it has been written [in Ex 16:18], “The one gathering much did not increase[g], and the one gathering little did not have-less”.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 8:10 That is, this participation in giving.
  2. 2 Corinthians 8:12 That is, a gift, the concrete expression of your eagerness.
  3. 2 Corinthians 8:13 Or, relief, abatement, relaxation.
  4. 2 Corinthians 8:13 Or, pressure, trouble.
  5. 2 Corinthians 8:13 Or, fairness, equity.
  6. 2 Corinthians 8:14 Or, surplus, leftovers.
  7. 2 Corinthians 8:15 That is, beyond their need. Likewise next. The Israelites gathered the same amount of manna for each person; none had an excess or a shortage.

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