夫吾豈欲加重爾等之累、以釋他人之肩耶？

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：

这不是说要别人脱离困境，要你们陷入困境，乃是要均平。

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、

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,

不虞匱乏；蓋有田宅者、無不鬻之、

蓋馬其頓及亞該亞教友、自告奮勇、慷慨輸將、以助耶路撒冷之窮苦聖徒；其所以自告奮勇、有此豪舉者、蓋由彼視之、實屬義不容辭之事耳。夫異邦人既得與耶路撒冷人同享其靈心之事、彼其以區區物質供之、豈為過乎？