2 Corinthians 8:14 BSB

2 Corinthians 8:14

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.

BSB

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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:

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:

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But by an equality - That you may do to those who are distressed now, as, on a change of circumstances, you would wish them to do to you. And I only wish that of your abundance you would now minister to their wants; and it may be that there abundance may yet supply your wants; for so liable are all human affairs to change, that it is as possible that you rich Corinthians should need the charitable help of others as it is that those Jews, who once had need of nothing, should now be dependent on your bounty.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

It may likewise have a further meaning:-that as the temporal bounty of the Corinthians did now supply the temporal wants of their poor brethren in Judea, so the prayers of these might be a means of bringing down many spiritual blessings on their benefactors: so that all the spiritual wants of the one might be amply supplied; all the temporal of the other.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐν	en	At	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
νῦν	nun	present	G3568 →
καιρῷ	kairō	time	G2540 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	your	G4771 →
περίσσευμα	perisseuma	excess	G4051 →
εἰς	eis	[will be] for	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ἐκείνων	ekeinōn	of those	G1565 →
ὑστέρημα,	husterēma	need,	G5303 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἐκείνων	ekeinōn	their	G1565 →
περίσσευμα	perisseuma	excess	G4051 →
γένηται	genētai	may be	G1096 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
ὑστέρημα,	husterēma	need,	G5303 →
ὅπως	hopōs	so that	G3704 →
γένηται	genētai	there may become	G1096 →
ἰσότης	isotēs	equality	G2471 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 4:34
There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,
leads to
- Acts 2:45
  Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.
- Luke 16:9
  I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
- Luke 12:33
  Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Deuteronomy 2:7
  Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these…
Through
2 Corinthians 9:12
For this ministry of service is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanksgiving to God.
leads to
- Philemon 1:4–7
  I always thank my God, remembering you in my prayers,
- 2 Corinthians 8:14–15
  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.
- Philippians 2:25
  But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
- 1 John 3:17
  If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 2 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About 2 Corinthians