Bible verse
It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
2 Corinthians 8:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 8.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
10 And this is my opinion about what is helpful for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give, but even to have such a desire.
11 Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
12 For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
13 It is not our intention that others may be relieved while you are burdened, but that there may be equality.
14 At the present time, your surplus will meet their need, so that in turn their surplus will meet your need. Then there will be equality.
15 As it is written: “He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall.”
16 But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.
17 For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
KJV
For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
ASV
For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;
ERV
For I say not this, that others may be eased, and ye distressed:
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