这不是说要别人脱离困境，要你们陷入困境，乃是要均平。

我原不是要别人轻省，你们受累，

我不是要别人轻松，你们受累，而是要均匀：

我不是要别人轻松，你们受累，而是要均匀：

这不是要别人轻省，你们受累，而是要大家都均等。

其实我这样说不是为了让别人轻松、你们为难，而是为了公平——

我原不是要別人輕省，你們受累，

我不是要別人輕鬆，你們受累，而是要均勻：

我不是要別人輕鬆，你們受累，而是要均勻：

這不是說要別人脫離困境，要你們陷入困境，乃是要均平。

這不是要別人輕省，你們受累，而是要大家都均等。

這不是說、別人該手頭鬆，而你們該手頭緊，

其實我這樣說不是為了讓別人輕鬆、你們為難，而是為了公平——

非欲彼逸而爾艱、

我不欲彼豐而爾嗇、

我勸捐、非欲彼安而爾苦、乃欲均平、今以爾之有餘、補彼之不足、

夫吾豈欲加重爾等之累、以釋他人之肩耶？

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.

We don’t want others to have it easy at your expense. We want things to be equal.

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness

Of course, I don’t mean your giving should make life easy for others and hard for yourselves. I only mean that there should be some equality.

It is not that there should be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality.

For this is not for the relief of others and for your hardship, but by way of equality—

For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;

For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

It is not that there may be relief for others and hardship for you, but it is a question of equality—

For[ I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

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

信徒都一无所缺，因为大家卖掉房屋田产，把所得的钱交给使徒，

因为马其顿和亚该亚的教会欣然捐出了财物给耶路撒冷的穷困圣徒。这固然是他们慷慨解囊，但也可以说是他们该还的债。外族人既然分享了犹太圣徒属灵的福分，现在以物质报答他们也是应该的。