Isotes names equitable balance in meeting needs and in providing fair treatment.

The attested use chiefly concerns an equitable balancing of resources, where abundance supplies another's deficiency; it also occurs in an instruction that masters provide what is just and fair to slaves.

1. Equitable balancing of needs · dominant

   In 2 Corinthians 8:13, the genitive singular form occurs in the contrast between others' relief and the readers' affliction, with the APB rendering the result as “that there may be equality.” In 2 Corinthians 8:14, the nominative singular form stands in the arrangement where one group's abundance supplies another's deficiency and later may be reciprocated; the APB again renders the stated result “that there may be equality.”

   2 Corinthians 8:132 Corinthians 8:14
2. Fair provision by masters · occasional

   In Colossians 4:1, the accusative singular form occurs in the command to masters concerning what they are to provide for their slaves. The APB renders the instruction as providing “what is just and fair,”.

   Colossians 4:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “equality” in 2 Corinthians 8:13 and 2 Corinthians 8:14, while Colossians 4:1 presents the command as providing what is “just and fair.” These renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.