Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁸ I am not speaking by way of command, but am proving^[a] through the earnestness of others the genuineness of your love also. ⁹ For you know the grace^[b] of our Lord Jesus Christ— that for your sakes He became-poor while being rich, in order that you might become-rich by the poverty of that One. ¹⁰ And I am giving an opinion in this matter, for this^[c] 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 ^[d] 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^[e] for others, affliction^[f] for you, but out of equality^[g]— ¹⁴ at the present time your abundance^[h] 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^[i], and the one gathering little did not have-less”.