King James Version
Read in contextBut 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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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:
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.
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:
but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,
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.