2 Corinthians 8:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

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  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:
  • 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
  • 2 Cor 8:1-3 : 1 And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, 2 because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality; 3 because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,
  • 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,
  • 2 Cor 9:7 : 7 each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
  • Eph 6:24 : 24 The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
  • Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? 15 and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, 16 and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
  • 1 John 3:17-19 : 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him? 18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth! 19 and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
  • Josh 24:14 : 14 `And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.
  • Rom 11:12-14 : 12 and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them? 13 For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify; 14 if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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    1And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

    2because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

    3because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,

    4with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

    5and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

    6so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

    7but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

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    9for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

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    8Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

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    24the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

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    13for not that for others release, and ye pressured, `do I speak,'

    14but by equality, at the present time your abundance -- for their want, that also their abundance may be for your want, that there may be equality,

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    8for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

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    8wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

    9for, for this also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether in regard to all things ye are obedient.

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    1For, indeed, concerning the ministration that `is' for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you,

    2for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

    3and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, ye may be ready,

    4lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

    5Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

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    19and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;

    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

    21providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

    22and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

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    8for even if also anything more abundantly I shall boast concerning our authority, that the Lord gave us for building up, and not for casting you down, I shall not be ashamed;

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    6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

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    13through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and `for' the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,

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    15and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

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    4for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

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    17and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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    17not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

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    8For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

    9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

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    8who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.

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    12and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

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    10for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

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    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

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    8so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

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    3not to condemn you do I say `it', for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

    4great `is' my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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    15and his tender affection is more abundantly toward you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye did receive him;

    16I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

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    19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,

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    24not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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    17because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,

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    8other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration;