2nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 13 Holy Bible
For `I say' not `this' that others may be eased `and' ye distressed;
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And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:
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For [it is] not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,
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For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
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for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - And ye be burdened; literally, for not that there may be relief to others, but to you affliction. In other words, I have no wish that you should distress yourselves to set others at ease. You must not suspect me of Jewish proclivities which would lead me to impoverish you to provide luxuries for the Christians at Jerusalem. Others refer it to the Macedonians: "I do not wish to burden you, but the Macedonians, who are poor, have contributed, and if you join them in this good work now they may help you hereafter." But there is no hint of this anywhere.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) For I mean not that other men be eased.--The disclaimer is obviously an answer to something that had been said. The "charity begins at home" argument, with which the workers in the cause of missions and other distant works of charity are but too familiar, would seem not to have been unknown in the Church of Corinth.
