A little time with Scripture.
SCRIPTURE READER

2 Corinthians 8:12-15

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2 Corinthians 8:12-15

12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

13For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

14but 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.

15As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

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A few questions for reading in context
  • Who is speaking, and to whom?
  • What is happening before and after this passage?
  • What kind of writing is this—poetry, narrative, letter, or another form?
  • What does the passage say before I consider how to apply it?