📖WEB · 2 Corinthians 8:15
What does 2 Corinthians 8:15 mean?
"As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”"
— 2 Corinthians 8:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.
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