2 Corinthians 8:14
2 Corinthians 8:10-20 The Message (MSG)
So here’s what I think: The best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not let those good intentions grow stale. Your heart’s been in the right place all along. You’ve got what it takes to finish it up, so go to it. Once the commitment is clear, you do what you can, not what you can’t. The heart regulates the hands. This isn’t so others can take it easy while you sweat it out. No, you’re shoulder to shoulder with them all the way, your surplus matching their deficit, their surplus matching your deficit. In the end you come out even. As it is written, Nothing left over to the one with the most, Nothing lacking to the one with the least. I thank God for giving Titus the same devoted concern for you that I have. He was most considerate of how we felt, but his eagerness to go to you and help out with this relief offering is his own idea. We’re sending a companion along with him, someone very popular in the churches for his preaching of the Message. But there’s far more to him than popularity. He’s rock-solid trustworthy. The churches handpicked him to go with us as we travel about doing this work of sharing God’s gifts to honor God as well as we can, taking every precaution against scandal.
2 Corinthians 8:14 King James Version (KJV)
but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality
2 Corinthians 8:14 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
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
2 Corinthians 8:14 New Century Version (NCV)
At this time you have plenty. What you have can help others who are in need. Then later, when they have plenty, they can help you when you are in need, and all will be equal.
2 Corinthians 8:14 American Standard Version (ASV)
but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality
2 Corinthians 8:14 New International Version (NIV)
At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality
2 Corinthians 8:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality.
2 Corinthians 8:14 Amplified Bible (AMP)
at this present time your surplus [over necessities] is going to supply their need, so that [at some other time] their surplus may be given to supply your need, that there may be equality
2 Corinthians 8:14 New Living Translation (NLT)
Right now you have plenty and can help those who are in need. Later, they will have plenty and can share with you when you need it. In this way, things will be equal.