| 12 | For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a man has, not according to what he has not. |
| 13 | I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, |
| 14 | but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their want, so that their abundance may supply your want, that there may be equality. |
| 15 | As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack." |