King James Version
2 Corinthians 8:13 in the King James Version says “For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:” — study this verse from 2 Corinthians chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:”
2 Corinthians 8:13 · KJV
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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:
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
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