¹⁴ But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.

¹² For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

³⁴ And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,