Generosity Commended
2 Corinthians 8:13
In 9 translations
- BSB
- It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
- KJV
- For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
- WEB
- For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
- ASV
- For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;
- LSV
- for I do not speak that for others [to be] released, and you pressured,
- YLT
- for not that for others release, and ye pressured, [do I speak,]
- DBY
- For [it is] not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
- DRC
- For I mean not that others should be eased, and you burthened, but by an equality.
- GNV
- Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include δὲ (“now”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ὑμῖν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ὑμῖν; Robinson–Pierpont add δὲ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- οὐ γὰρ ἵνα ἄλλοις ἄνεσις, ὑμῖν θλῖψις· ἀλλʼ ἐξ ἰσότητος
- RP2018
- Οὐ γὰρ ἵνα ἄλλοις ἄνεσις, ὑμῖν δὲ θλίψις· ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἰσότητος, ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ τὸ ὑμῶν περίσσευμα εἰς τὸ ἐκείνων ὑστέρημα,
- TR-Boyd
- Οὐ γὰρ ἵνα ἄλλοις ἄνεσις, ὑμῖν δὲ θλίψις· ἀλλ᾿ ἐξ ἰσότητος, ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ τὸ ὑμῶν περίσσευμα εἰς τὸ ἐκείνων ὑστέρημα,
- SCR1894
- ου γαρ ινα αλλοις ανεσις υμιν δε θλιψις αλλ εξ ισοτητος εν τω νυν καιρω το υμων περισσευμα εις το εκεινων υστερημα
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- Acts 4:34There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,
- Romans 15:26–27For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual…
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