:TEXT: "keep lending, expecting nothing in return" (literally, "keep lending, despairing nothing") : A B D K L P Xc Delta Theta Pi2 Psi f1 f13 28 33 565 700 892 1010 1241 Byz Lect lat vg cop : KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: "keep lending, despairing of no one" : S W X Xi Pi syr : ASVn RSVn NEBnCOMMENTS: The reading "despairing of no one" is apparently due to a mistake of the eye. The difference between the Greek words for "no one" and "nothing" is only one letter. "No one" has an extra letter, an "alpha" at the end. The next word in Greek begins with the letter "alpha." Since early manuscripts were written without spaces between words, copyists apparently saw the "alpha" twice, once with "nothing" (making it read "no one") and once with the Greek word for "despairing."