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I am not making a demand, but I am testing the sincerity of your love in comparison to the earnestness of others.

Chapter Outline

1. He stirs them to a generous gift for the poor saints at Jerusalem, by the example of the Macedonians;
7. by commendation of their former forwardness;
9. by the example of Christ;
14. and by the spiritual profit that shall redound to themselves thereby;
16. commending to them the integrity and willingness of Titus, and those other brothers.

Timeline

57 AD

Paul Writes again to the Corinthians

2 Corinthians 1 - 13

People

Corinthians, Paul, Titus

Places

Achaia, Corinth, Macedonia

Topics

Command, Commanding, Commandment, Comparing, Diligence, Earnestness, Forwardness, Genuine, Genuineness, Giving, Love, Men's, Mind, Occasion, Order, Prove, Proving, Quality, Ready, Saying, Sincerity, Speak, Speaking, Standard, Test, Using, Zeal

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Parallel Verses

NASB: I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

KJV: I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

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