2nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV 2ndCorinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is there, `it is' acceptable according as `a man' hath, not according as `he' hath not.
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BBE 2ndCorinthians 8:12

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.
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DARBY 2ndCorinthians 8:12

For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.
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KJV 2ndCorinthians 8:12

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.
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WBT 2ndCorinthians 8:12


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WEB 2ndCorinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
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YLT 2ndCorinthians 8:12

for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - For if there be first a willing mind, etc. "For if the readiness is forth- coming, it is acceptable," etc. In other words, God considers not quantum, but ex quanto; not the magnitude of the gift, but the proportion which it bears to the means of the giver.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) For if there be first a willing mind.--This grows "out of that which ye have" in the previous verse. He is expecting a sum large relatively, and not absolutely. The history of the widow's mite, found in the Gospel of his friend St. Luke (Luke 21:1-4), was probably not unknown to him as belonging to "the words of the Lord Jesus" which he freely cites (Acts 20:35). He has, at all events, imbibed the spirit of its teaching from other like words.